Testimony of Miriam Marksheid, born in Moinesti, Romania, 1928, regarding her experiences in Moinesti and Bacau

Testimony of Miriam Marksheid, born in Moinesti, Romania, 1928, regarding her experiences in Moinesti and Bacau Childhood in a traditional, Zionist family with four children; Hashomer Hatzair activities; attends a Hebrew kindergarten and a Hebrew elementary school. Outbreak of war; expulsion from the Romanian school, 1941; studies with private teachers; deportation to Bacau; yellow badge; restrictions on Jews; residence with her family members [?]; draft of the men to forced labor; selling of valuables in order to obtain food; death of her brother from typhus, 1942; cancellation of some of the restrictions including the yellow badge, 1943; retreat of German Army; approach of Red Army; liberation, August 1944. Emigration plan to the United States for family reunification; move to Austria and Italy; life in a DP camp; course to become a youth counselor; marriage; aliya to Eretz Israel, 1948.