Testimony of Hanoch Hugo Polesiuc Padan, born in Cernauti, Romania, 1928, regarding his experiences in Marculesti and Obodovka

Testimony of Hanoch Hugo Polesiuc Padan, born in Cernauti, Romania, 1928, regarding his experiences in Marculesti and Obodovka Traditional family; witness becomes deaf when he was 1 year old; his childhood; attends a school for deaf people; life until 1940. Soviet occupation; outbreak of the war between Germany and the Soviet Union, 1941; deportation to a camp in Marculesti with his parents and brother; transfer to Transnistria; arrival to Obodovka village; life in Obodovka camp including typhus disease, hunger, cold and labor in a corn mill, in exchange for corn flour, and labor in agriculture and digging for part of the time; his father's labor in the office of the commander of the region, where he receives bread portions in the office; liberation by the Red Army, spring 1944. Return to Cernauti; move to Romania, 1946; move to France; aliya to Eretz Israel, January 1947; life in Israel.