Testimony of Zvi Horovitz, born in Cernauti, Romania, 1922

Testimony of Zvi Horovitz, born in Cernauti, Romania, 1922 Childhood in a religious family; attendance at a Romanian school; life until 1940. Russian occupation; German occupation, summer 1941; deportation to the Cernauti Ghetto; decision of the parents to go into hiding; deportation; various types of labor in Cernauti and afterwards in Bessarabia in a labor camp; a short let-up and deportation to labor in southern Transylvania; the decision to escape; assistance by a Romanian officer and deportation; arrival in Bucharest during the air-raids, 1944. Illegal aliya attempt with the assistance of the Zionist movement, two weeks later; departure as part of a group of three ships, one of which, (the "Mefkure"), was sunk, summer 1944; setting sail on the ship "Boulbul" to Turkey and from there by train to Eretz Israel; absorption.