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Testimony of Chaim Grisario, born in Darabani, Romania, 1936, regarding the deportation to Transnistria

Testimony

Testimony of Chaim Grisario, born in Darabani, Romania, 1936, regarding the deportation to Transnistria Family background; his father is a tailor, his mother is a seamstress and housewife; studies in a "room". The outbreak of the war; restrictions on Jews; deportation, June 1941; walking and getting to the village; food shortages; deportation by cattle train; reaching and crossing the Dniester River; arrival in Atachi; continue driving; arrival in Mogilev Podolskiy; transfer to Ozarnitsa; stay at the place for a few months; living conditions; deportation to the Mogilev ghetto; stay in a children's home;...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Collective testimony of survivors Kurt Chaim Shternshus, born 1932 [?], Claire Shternshus, born 1936, Yehuda Tenenhaus, born 1928, Yehudit Yeti Elenbogen, born 1922, Joseph Vaserman, born 1930, Regina Kaufman, born 1933, Joseph Fishel Veinberg Carmin, born 1930, and David Bakal, born 1923, all born in Romania, and Yisrael Elenbogen, born in Austria, 1919, regarding the Murafa Ghetto, Transnistria Collective testimony of: Kurt Chaim Shternshus, born in Cernauti, Romania, 1932 [?], Claire Shternshus, born in Cernauti, Romania, 1936, Yehuda Tenenhaus, born in Suceava, Romania, 1928, Yisrael Elenbogen, born in...

Language : Hebrew

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Testimony

העד- בן למשפחה דתית; החיים היהודיים ב-Cernauti; קהילות יהודיות רבות ב-Cernauti; פעילות ענפה של הארגון 'בונד'; יחסים חמים עם האב ועם הסב מצד האם; פטירת האם בילדותו המוקדמת של העד; השתתפות בהצגות תיאטרון ובפעילות תרבותית; התגברות האנטישמיות בעיתונים ובדעת הקהל הרומני ב-Cernauti בעקבות ההשפעה הנאצית; לימודים בגימנסיה רומנית; קשר טוב עם המורים; החלטה לברוח ב-1941 עקב התחזקות השלטון הנאצי הרומני; בריחה וחציית הנהר Dnestr; הפצצות בדרך; הגעה ל-Kamenets Podolsk; עלייה על הרכבת; נסיעה ל-Rostov na Donu; שיכון בקולחוז; עבודה ברישום ימי עבודה של העובדים; המשך נסיעה ל-Astrakhan בסוף 1941; מעבר ל-Alma Ata; אי גיוס העד לצבא...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Moshe Gabis, born in Briceva, Romania, 1938, regarding his experiences as a child in Briceva, Razino, Bershad and Romanovka

Testimony

Testimony of Moshe Gabis, born in Briceva, Romania, 1938, regarding his experiences as a child in Briceva, Razino, Bershad and Romanovka Life before the war; traditional family. Soviet occupation, 1940; cutting off of contact with his family in Romania; German-Romanian occupation, summer 1941; deportation to Transnistria; transfer on a march between villages; transfer to Razino; transfer on a march to Bershad; escape to Romanovka with the help of bribery; life in Romanovka; his father's labor; wearing of a yellow badge; liberation by the Red Army, March 1944. Return to his family's home; life in his...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Hava Bracha (Yusov) Croitoru, born in Iasi, Romania, 1940, regarding her experiences in Iasi

Testimony

Testimony of Hava Bracha (Yusov) Croitoru, born in Iasi, Romania, 1940, regarding her experiences in Iasi Life in Iasi. Wears a yellow badge; capture of her father; deportation of her father to forced labor, in the burial of Jews who died; return of her father to the family's home, dripping with blood; death of her father, 1943; witness is placed in a Jewish orphanage; fostered by a Jewish family. Life with the [foster] family until she grew up; aliya to Israel, 1963.

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of David Croitoru, born in Podul Iloaiei, Romania, 1936, regarding his experiences as a child in Podul Iloaiei and in Iasi

Testimony

Testimony of David Croitoru, born in Podul Iloaiei, Romania, 1936, regarding his experiences as a child in Podul Iloaiei and in Iasi Life in Podul Iloaiei. Deportation to Iasi with his family; informing on Jews, by their non-Jewish neighbors; concentration with the refugees in an old age home building; receives help from the Jewish committee; wears a yellow badge; deportation of his father and brothers to forced labor; gendarmes break into their home; detention of his father; his father is accused of being a Communist; detention of his father in the Talmud Torah building; deportation to a camp (apparently...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Poli Pnina (Shenkar) Yaniv, born in Hotin, Romania, 1926, regarding her experiences in Hotin and in the Zakisha Ghetto and the Murafa Ghetto

Testimony

Testimony of Poli Pnina (Shenkar) Yaniv, born in Hotin, Romania, 1926, regarding her experiences in Hotin and in the Zakisha Ghetto and the Murafa Ghetto Life before the war; well-to-do family. Deportation to Transnistria; Zakisha Ghetto life; transfer to the Murafa Ghetto; Murafa Ghetto life; death of her sister; liberation, March 1944. Move to Cernauti; aliya attempt to Eretz Israel, 1947; detention in Cyprus; aliya to Israel, 1949.

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Yosef Kalman, born in Iasi, Romania, 1928, regarding his experiences in Iasi

Testimony

Testimony of Yosef Kalman, born in Iasi, Romania, 1928, regarding his experiences in Iasi Life before the war; termination of studies at school; dismissal from work places; yellow badge and marking the outsides of houses; expulsion from his home with his family; transfer to Police Headquarters on foot with his family, June 1941; murder of those having difficulty walking; being put on closed trucks; jumping from the truck and finding a hiding place in a thicket; help from non-Jews; seeing the piles of corpses of those murdered by the side of the road; burning of Jews in a granary; death of his father on the...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Shoshana (Rozner) Dirnfeld, born in Sarateni, Romania, 1933, regarding her experiences in the Gherla Ghetto, Cluj Ghetto, Auschwitz and Hohenelbe Vrchlabi

Testimony

Testimony of Shoshana (Rozner) Dirnfeld, born in Sarateni, Romania, 1933, regarding her experiences in the Gherla Ghetto, Cluj Ghetto, Auschwitz and Hohenelbe Vrchlabi Ultra-Orthodox family; increase in the displays of antisemitism, 1938; move to Gherla. Life under Hungarian rule occupation and the confiscation of her family's business, 1941; German occupation, 1944; burial of property in a pit in the yard; deportation to the Gherla Ghetto in a brick factory in Gherla; help with food from non-Jewish acquaintances; demand by the gendarmes to hand over money and gold; abuse of her father and the wealthy...

File Number : 12989

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Martin Mozes, born in Viisoara, Romania, 1920, regarding his experiences at forced labor in the Campeni region, Turda, Alba Iulia and Sibiu

Testimony

Testimony of Martin Mozes, born in Viisoara, Romania, 1920, regarding his experiences at forced labor in the Campeni region, Turda, Alba Iulia and Sibiu From a religious family. Iron Guard rise to power, 1933; robbery of property; slanderous songs against the Jews in the streets; drafted to forced labor, June 1941; forced labor paving roads, in a quarry and working on the railroad in the Campeni region; transfer to labor as an orderly in a hospital in Turda; escape with his mother and sister; air raids en route; help from local residents, Jews and Romanians; transfer to Alba Iulia; transfer to Sibiu;...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

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