Testimony of Itzhak Izi Strassberg Harari, born in Sulita, Romania, 1934, regarding his experiences in Sulita, Bucharest, Odessa and Israel

Testimony of Itzhak Izi Strassberg Harari, born in Sulita, Romania, 1934, regarding his experiences in Sulita, Bucharest, Odessa and Israel His childhood in a traditional family; his father's work as a merchant in Eretz Israel; his aunt's aliya to Eretz Israel, 1934. Occupation of Sulita by the Soviet Army, 1940; draft of his father into the Red Army; his father's escape; his father's move back to Sulita; occupation of Sulita by the Romanian Army, 1941; murder of approximately 2,000 Jews; theft of property by neighbors; deportation of the Jews to the Bershad Ghetto; Bershad Ghetto life including sleeping in a storeroom and collecting food from garbage containers; draft to forced labor in exchange for food; death of his father due to typhus; his mother's work in a hospital in service labor; his siblings' labor as shepherds; transfer of orphans to orphanages with help from the JDC, 1942; transfer of his siblings to an orphanage in Iasi; orphanage life; transfer to Bucharest; life in Bucharest including receiving food, clothing and education; occupation of Bucharest by the Soviet Army; transfer of the orphans to the Soviet Union, 1944; transfer to Odessa; transfer of his brother to Ural; liberation. His siblings' travel on trains to search for their mother; reunion of the family; aliya to Israel, 1950; life in Israel including absorption and rehabilitation.