Testimony of Josef Rozenboim Vered, born in Alexandreni, Romania, 1935, regarding his experiences in Lencauti, Transnistria and Murafa

Testimony of Josef Rozenboim Vered, born in Alexandreni, Romania, 1935, regarding his experiences in Lencauti, Transnistria and Murafa Life in Lencauti; increasing displays of antisemitism by the authorities. German occupation of [Lencauti?]; pulling Jewish men from their homes; murder of his father and the other men in a pit [in Lencauti?]; concentration of the women and children; deportation on foot to Transnistria; fear of being drowned in the Dniester River; transfer to Murafa; receiving aid from local Jews; life in Murafa including crowding and illness; survival of his mother by sewing for the Ukrainians; liberation by the Red Army. Return to Bessarabia; unsuccessful aliya attempt from Yugoslavia to Eretz Israel on the ship, "Knesset Israel", 1947; detention in Cyprus, return aliya to Eretz Israel, August 1947.