Testimony of Zvia Zila (Cvit) Raboi, born in Briceni, Romania, 1925, regarding her experiences in the deportation to Transnistria and in Sumovka

Testimony of Zvia Zila (Cvit) Raboi, born in Briceni, Romania, 1925, regarding her experiences in the deportation to Transnistria and in Sumovka Childhood in Briceni; displays of antisemitism before the war. Soviet occupation, 1940; cessation of Zionist activity; nationalization of property; German-Romanian occupation, summer 1941; murder of Jews on the streets; robbery of property by the local population; deportation to Transnistria, autumn 1941; murder of her father en route; arrival at Sumovka after a few months; hunger; crowding; typhus; death of her mother; fear of the Ukrainian militia; labor for Ukrainian farmers in exchange for food; contact with the partisans; liberation by the Red Army, early 1944. Return to Romania; life after the war; unsuccessful aliya attempt to Eretz Israel and detention in Cyprus; return aliya to Eretz Israel, 1947.