Testimony of Rosa (Shekhtman) Zelichowski, born in Cernauti, Romania, 1929, regarding her experiences in Cernauti, Atachi, Mogilev, Yaruga, Skazintsy and other places

Testimony of Rosa (Shekhtman) Zelichowski, born in Cernauti, Romania, 1929, regarding her experiences in Cernauti, Atachi, Mogilev, Yaruga, Skazintsy and other places Her childhood with her parents. Red Army occupation of Cernauti, 1940; witness attends a Jewish school; German Army occupation of Cernauti, June 1941; establishment of the Cernauti Ghetto; her father's labor as a barber in service of the Gestapo; life under German occupation including restrictions on travel and the termination of studies; her family receives a warning concerning a Gestapo raid; deportation in the direction of the east toward Atachi, 21 October 1941; crossing of the Dniester River; handing over of valuables to Romanian soldiers; transfer to Mogilev; selling of belongings in exchange for food; rumors concerning deportation; escape to Yaruga; life in Yaruga including typhus disease; transfer to Skazintsy camp; camp life including hunger and selling of belongings in exchange for food; [attitude of the] Ukrainian guards; move back to Yaruga on a farmer's cart, in exchange for bribery; [life in Yaruga including] work in knitting; capture of her father; deportation of her father to labor; liberation by the Red Army; German air-raids, April 1944; move to Mogilev; move to Cernauti. Move back home, 1944; studies; receives help from neighbors; move to Bucharest; aliya to Israel, 23 March 1951.