Testimony of Hyman Chaim Treiber, born in Turka, Poland, 1922, regarding his experiences in Turka, Carpathian Ruthenia, Oradea, Bucharest and the United States

Testimony of Hyman Chaim Treiber, born in Turka, Poland, 1922, regarding his experiences in Turka, Carpathian Ruthenia, Oradea, Bucharest and the United States His childhood in Turka in a family of hasidim, including Zionist activities, learning in a "heder" and attending a public school; life in Turka until 1939. Red Army occupation of Turka; German Army occupation of Turka, 1941; life under German occupation including hunger; "Aktion", 07 January 1942; murder of his father; murder of two sisters; deportation to a labor camp; escape with friends, several weeks later; life in a city [?] until the large "Aktion", August 1942; transfer from the bunker, with other people who were hiding, to the railroad station; joins a labor group in a quarry in place of another person; escape to Carpathian Ruthenia with three men, 16 November 1942; arrival to the border with help from a border smuggler; receives help from Jews; arrival to Uzhorod; move to Budapest; receives help from the JDC; move to Oradea with a group; life in Oradea [disguised] as Christians including work with the Vizhnitzer Rebbe; German Army occupation of Oradea, 1944; escape to Bucharest with help from the Zionist movement, summer 1944; liberation. Black market; detention; escape to Germany; emigration to the United States with his wife and son, 1949; life in the United States.