Testimony of Sergei Shmil Weinstein, born in Ukraine, 1927, regarding his experiences in Mogilev, Transnistria, the Red Army and Cernauti

Testimony of Sergei Shmil Weinstein, born in Ukraine, 1927, regarding his experiences in Mogilev, Transnistria, the Red Army and Cernauti His parents' home; move to Mogilev; attends a public school, including experiencing antisemitism. Call to leave the city due to impending battles, July 1941; escape; move back home; handing over of Transnistria to Romania; anti-Jewish decrees; arrival of refugees from Bessarabia; establishment of the Mogilev Ghetto, 1942; Mogilev Ghetto life including mortality, air-raids and forced labor; initiation of extra labor in order to add to their livelihood; order by Antonescu to ease the Jews' situation, September [1942?]; rescue by a German soldier; typhus disease; hunger; arrival of the Red Army; the German soldiers flee; explosion of the bridge over the Dniester River; acts of revenge against Romanian soldiers and Ukrainians; enlists in the Red Army, May 1944; service in the Soviet infantry and navy. Release from the military after eight years of service, 1951; move to Cernauti; life in Cernauti including antisemitism; witness starts a family; aliya to Israel, December 1971; life in Israel.