Testimony of Lea Gitel Gertruda (Presner) Malek, born in Vienna, Austria, 1917, regarding her experiences in the Marculesti camp and the Bershad Ghetto

Testimony of Lea Gitel Gertruda (Presner) Malek, born in Vienna, Austria, 1917, regarding her experiences in the Marculesti camp and the Bershad Ghetto Her childhood in Vienna; her family's move to Cernauti, 1927; from a traditional, well established family; life in Cernauti including attending a government high school. Soviet occupation, 1940; German occupation, summer 1941; deportation to the Cernauti Ghetto; deportation by train to the Marculesti camp two days later; transfer to Transnistria on foot; transfer to the Bershad Ghetto on foot; ghetto life including disease and the deaths of her parents, late 1941; death of her sister, summer 1942; ghetto life including hunger; liberation by the Red Army, spring 1944. Return to Cernauti; move to Romania; unsuccessful aliya attempt with her husband, late 1947; detention in Cyprus; birth of her daughter; return aliya to Eretz Israel, early 1949; life until the present time.