Testimony of Chaim Stern, born in Dornesti, Romania in 1934, regarding his experiences in Transnistria, Bershad Ghetto, and the children’s home in Apeldoorn, The Netherlands.

Testimony of Chaim Stern, born in Dornesti, Romania in 1934, regarding his experiences in Transnistria, Bershad Ghetto, and the children’s home in Apeldoorn, The Netherlands. His nuclear family; revolt of members of Iron Guard in January 1941; transfer to Radauti; antisemitic acts; religious life; expulsion by train to Transnistria; transit point in Atachi; confiscation of valuables by Romanian gendarmes; river crossing by raft; drownings; march to Bershad; typhus; types of labor performed by his mother; deaths of many people from cold, hunger, and disease; activity of the partisans; entry of the Russians in 1944; liberation in Bershad; father’s draft into Red Army; move to Cernauti; life in refugee camp; religious life in Cernauti; father’s release and return to Dornesti; move to Radauti and from there to northern Transylvania; stay in Oradea Mare; assembly of Romanian children in Bucharest; move to children’s home in Apeldoorn, The Netherlands; activities and daily life; aliya to Israel in October 1948; absorption.