Testimony of Josef Kreisberger, born in Bucharest, Romania, 1935, regarding the deportation of his family to Transnistria

Testimony of Josef Kreisberger, born in Bucharest, Romania, 1935, regarding the deportation of his family to Transnistria Childhood in a family with financial means; his father's business in trading in porcelain and special glassware. The outbreak of World War II; obtaining documents and entry permits for immigration to Argentina; accepting a job to manage the company in Argentina; mother's opposition to emigrating to Argentina; smuggling across the border into Serbia following the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact; joining his mother family from Odessa; lack of work; living conditions; inability to leave the Soviet Union; family move to Cernauti; the bombings; conquest of Cernauti by the Romanians; deportation to Transnistria, September 1941; deportation to Mogilev Podolskiy; deportation to forced labor; hiding Jews destined for deportation to forced labor inside the home; his family's livelihood in cooking and selling food; family survival; approaching the front. Liberation by the Red Army; return to Cernauti; rehabilitation after the war.