Testimony of Reuven Vitzrabin, born in Lipcani Targ, Romania, 1931, regarding his experiences in Lipcani Targ and Tulchin

Testimony of Reuven Vitzrabin, born in Lipcani Targ, Romania, 1931, regarding his experiences in Lipcani Targ and Tulchin Childhood in a traditional family; obtaining a certificate for legal aliya to Eretz Israel; attempt by his mother to prevent his aliya to Eretz Israel. Restrictions on the Jews; information received regarding life of the Jews under German occupation; Red Army occupation [of Lipcani Targ]; releasing Communists from prisons; deportation of the wealthy to Siberia, 1939; life under Romanian rule, 1941; escape of Jews out of fear of retaliation; burning of [Lipcani Targ] by the Red Army; deportation of Jews by [the] Roman [authority]; deportation of Jews on foot without food and water; exchanging valuables for food; death of his father; death of his grandfather; death of his grandmother; halt at Atachi; crossing over the Dniester River on rafts including throwing people into the raging river; attitude of the Ukrainian population towards the refugees; receiving aid and food without giving anything in return; meeting with Jews from Bukovina; receiving food and clothing from Romanian Jews and from the JDC; an orphanage [?]; agricultural labor in various kolkhozy; [receiving food from] the central kitchen; transfer to Tulchin; setting up classes; labor in a peat field; liberation by the Red Army. Return to Bessarabia; life in Bessarablia; aliya to Eretz Israel, 1945.