Testimony of Pepi (Kahlenbeg) Laufer, born in Storojinet, Romania, 1920, regarding her experiences in Storojinet, Bessarabia, Balta and in an orphanage in Bucharest

Testimony of Pepi (Kahlenbeg) Laufer, born in Storojinet, Romania, 1920, regarding her experiences in Storojinet, Bessarabia, Balta and in an orphanage in Bucharest Her childhood in a traditional family, including attending a Romanian school and high school; attitude of the local population toward the Jews. Outbreak of the war; Soviet occupation; Romanian occupation; concentration of the Jews in a school without food and water, for several days; deportation to the Storojinet Ghetto; deportation to Cernauti in freight trains, including overcrowding and hunger; arrival to Bessarabia; march on foot including mortality and sleeping in stables and granaries, for approximately six weeks; arrival to Balta, in Transnistria; death of her father due to dysentery illness; death of her mother due to dysentery illness; death of her younger brother; [life in Balta including] agricultural labor; move to an orphanage in Bucharest [along with other orphans]; liberation by the Red Army. Life after the war; aliya to Israel, 1959; life in Israel.