Testimony of Moshe Vegner, born in 1923 in Mihaileni, Romania, about his experiences in the Mogilev Podolski ghetto, in Dorohoi, immigration to Eretz Israel via Istanbul in 1944, and more

Testimony of Moshe Vegner, born in 1923 in Mihaileni, Romania, about his experiences in the Mogilev Podolski ghetto, in Dorohoi, immigration to Eretz Israel via Istanbul in 1944, and more Life before the war, membership in the Hanoar Hazioni youth movement; Soviet occupation ensues in 1940; antisemitism in Dorohoi; arrest of rabbi in Mihaileni; synagogue is searched; arrest of brother in 1940; German-Soviet war breaks out; evacuation of Dorohoi in 1940; witness sent to forced labor in Atachi; deportation by ferry to Mogilev Podolski ghetto; life in an open ghetto; given shelter in a synagogue; life in various rented apartments; assigned to forced labor in service of the Ukrainians; clearing rubble; working in Atachi in summer 1942; repairing bridge over the Dniester River; paying a bribe in return for a permit to remain in Mogilev Podolski; sent back to Dorohoi along with other Romanian Jews in November 1943; escaping to Mihaileni; receiving aid from Romanian neighbors; reorganization of Jewish community life; liberation by Red Army forces in March 1944; Romania assents to Jewish administration's request for cooperation; returning to activity in the Hanoar Hazioni movement; working for Red Army soldiers dismantling a sugar factory and moving it to Russia; obtaining false papers for immigration to Eretz Israel; maintaining the Zionist center in Bucharest; moving to Instanbul aboard the Saladin; immigration to Eretz Israel by train in 1944; life in the Atlit camp, December 1944; receiving a "certificate" (British Mandate immigration visa) in Eretz Israel; receiving immigrant papers.