Testimony of Pavel Gandelman, born in Briceni, Romania, 1926, regarding his experiences in Briceni, the Vartejeni Ghetto, Bershad Ghetto, Transnistria and other places

Testimony of Pavel Gandelman, born in Briceni, Romania, 1926, regarding his experiences in Briceni, the Vartejeni Ghetto, Bershad Ghetto, Transnistria and other places His childhood in a wealthy, assimilated family. Romanian Army occupation of Briceni, 1941; deportation to Transnistria via Secureni; murder of deported Jews in Secureni; move back to the Bessarabia area; murder of Jews by the Germans on the Dniester River; transfer of the deportees to the Vartejeni Ghetto; Vartejeni Ghetto life, including a dysentery epidemic, for several weeks; transfer to the Bershad Ghetto, before Rosh Hashana; meets Soviets; help from the Soviets to the deportees who survived the march; Bershad Ghetto life including the smuggle of food, September 1941-March 1944; finds a hiding place in order to evade deportation to forced labor in Tulchin and Nikolayev; execution of the ghetto's Jews, early 1944; liberation, 12 March 1944. Life after the war; aliya to Israel, 05 September 1991.