Testimony of Sara Sari (Polak) Kerner, born in Vama, Romania, 1931, regarding her experiences in Vama, Gura Humorului, Transnistria, the Zhmerinka Ghetto and other places

Testimony of Sara Sari (Polak) Kerner, born in Vama, Romania, 1931, regarding her experiences in Vama, Gura Humorului, Transnistria, the Zhmerinka Ghetto and other places Her childhood in a traditional family. Life under fascist occupation including antisemitism; deportation to Gura Humorului; transfer to Transnistria, 1941; transfer by train to Atachi; transfer on rafts to Mogilev; transfer on foot to the Zhmerinka Ghetto, including hunger and cold; request for food from farmers in villages in the vicinity; her father's labor as a shoemaker for farmers; Zhmerinka Ghetto life including a typhus epidemic; beatings by Romanian Gendarmerie men; liberation by the Red Army, 1944. Move back to Vama; hospitalization and surgery in Bucharest; joins the Hanoar Hatzioni movement; illegal aliya attempt to Eretz Israel; detention in Cyprus, 1947; aliya to Eretz Israel, 1948; life in Israel.