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Testimony of Yaacov Klein Katsir, born in Bucharest, Romania, 1931, regarding his experiences as a child in Bucharest

Testimony

Testimony of Yaacov Klein Katsir, born in Bucharest, Romania, 1931, regarding his experiences as a child in Bucharest Family background; Shabbatot and religious holidays; attends a Sephardic Jewish school; synagogues; youth movements and mutual help in the community; arrival of refugees in Bucharest. Anti-Jewish legislation during the Goga-Cuza government; terror on the part of the Iron Guard legionnaires; attempts by the Romanian Army to disperse the legionnaires; persecution of youth groups; deportations to Transnistria; forced labor; agricultural labor in a rural area; air-raids on factories by the US...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Yehoshua Shiko Ozias Schechter, born in Putna, Romania, 1930, regarding his experiences as a child in Putna, Radauti, in the Zhabokrich and Tsibulevka Ghettos and more

Testimony

Testimony of Yehoshua Shiko Ozias Schechter, born in Putna, Romania, 1930, regarding his experiences as a child in Putna, Radauti, in the Zhabokrich and Tsibulevka Ghettos and more Life before the war; studies in a "heder" and in a public school; Draft of his father into the Romanian Army; release of his father by using bribery; deportation to Radauti, 1940; life there; establishment of a school for Jews; yellow badge; rise of the Garda de Fier (Iron Guard) organization to power; mass murder in Bukovina; deportation together with his family by train to Transnistria; transfer to Atachi; life there;...

File Number : 13314

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Joseph Iozhi Shnarkh, born in Vatra Dornei, Romania, 1933, regarding his experiences as a child in Vatra Dornei, Atachi, Mogilev-Podolski and Shargorod

Testimony

Testimony of Joseph Iozhi Shnarkh, born in Vatra Dornei, Romania, 1933, regarding his experiences as a child in Vatra Dornei, Atachi, Mogilev-Podolski and Shargorod Life before the war; his father's contacts with the locals. Murder of Jews by Romanians; German occupation, 1941; yellow badge; concentration of the Jews in a cellar and deportation in train cars to Transnistria; transfer to Atachi; crosses a river in boats; confiscation of valuables by Romanian gendarmes; march to Mogilev-Podolski; life in Mogilev-Podolski and concentration of the Jews in an abondoned building; transfer in a march to...

File Number : 13056

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Mordechai Marko Mendel, born in Dorohoi, Romania, 1932, regarding his experiences as a child in Dorohoi, Atachi, Mogilev-Podolski, Shargorod and other places

Testimony

Testimony of Mordechai Marko Mendel, born in Dorohoi, Romania, 1932, regarding his experiences as a child in Dorohoi, Atachi, Mogilev-Podolski, Shargorod and other places Life before the war. Pogrom by Romanian gendarmes against the Jews; outbreak of the war between Germany and the Soviet Union, June 1941; anti-Jewish restrictions including the yellow badge; transfer of his father to forced labor; deportation to Atachi; transfer to Transnistria; crosses a river on rafts; drowning of Jews in the river; transfer on foot to Mogilev-Podolski; transfer on foot to Shargorod; life in Shargorod in a synagogue;...

File Number : 12948

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Marcel Dolberg, born in Cernauti, Romania, 1927, regarding his experiences in the Cernauti Ghetto

Testimony

Testimony of Marcel Dolberg, born in Cernauti, Romania, 1927, regarding his experiences in the Cernauti Ghetto Life before the war; attends a local Romanian school; Bnei Akiva activities. Soviet occupation, 1940; his father's disappearance and murder by Romanians; German occupation, June 1941; anti-Jewish decrees including yellow badge; deportation to the Cernauti Ghetto with his mother; ghetto life; deportation of relatives to Transnistria; work hauling sacks of flour; his uncle's death from cold; certificates issued allowing the witness and his mother to remain in Cernauti; in hiding in a factory;...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Avraham Veininger, born in Cozmeni, Romania, 1930, regarding his experiences in Atachi

Testimony

Testimony of Avraham Veininger, born in Cozmeni, Romania, 1930, regarding his experiences in Atachi From a traditional family; life before the war; education. Outbreak of the war; Soviet occupation; German occupation; decrees including confiscation of possessions and yellow badge; deportation to Atachi; death of his grandmother from typhus; finds a hiding place in the home of a villager in exchange for work; deportation of his brother to a labor camp; meets his brother; liberation. Return to Cozmeni; draft of his father to the Red Army; completion of his studies; move to Bucharest; aliya attempt on...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Pinchas Pincho Segal, born in Dorohoi, Romania, 1933, regarding his experiences in Transnistria

Testimony

Testimony of Pinchas Pincho Segal, born in Dorohoi, Romania, 1933, regarding his experiences in Transnistria Childhood and family background. Deportation to Atachi by train; crosses the Bug River on foot; deportation to Mogilev Podolsky; life in Mogilev; rubella; mass mortality rate. Return to Dorohoi; completion of high school studies; aliya to Israel, 1951; absorption.

File Number : 12577

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Wolter Shpira, born in Gura Humorului, Romania, 1924, regarding his experiences in Atachi and the Mogilev-Podolski Ghetto

Testimony

Testimony of Wolter Shpira, born in Gura Humorului, Romania, 1924, regarding his experiences in Atachi and the Mogilev-Podolski Ghetto Life before the war; his father owns a large sawmill; attends a German school; private Hebrew lessons; active cultural life. Nationalization of the sawmill, 1940; expropriation of a room in the family's apartment, 1941; confiscation of their possessions, February 1941; deportation to Atachi, October 1941; life in Atachi; transfer to the Mogilev-Podolski Ghetto; life in Mogilev-Podolski; his father's work as the Jewish community treasurer; typhus; entrusted to an orphanage;...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Manashe Schechter, born in Mihaileni, Romania, 1927, regarding his experiences in Dorohoi, Atachi, Mogilev-Podolski and Dzhurin

Testimony

Testimony of Manashe Schechter, born in Mihaileni, Romania, 1927, regarding his experiences in Dorohoi, Atachi, Mogilev-Podolski and Dzhurin Life before the war; education; Jewish community; murder of his parents and grandfather in Sered; membership in Hanoar Hatzioni. Deportation of the Jews to Dorohoi; deportation to Transnistria; transfer to Atachi; transfer to Mogilev-Podolski on foot; life in Mogilev-Podolski including life in hiding in a movie theater; handing over a gold watch as a bribe by his mother; transfer to Dzhurin; help from Ukrainian Jews; life in Dzhurin; return to Dorohoi, December 1943;...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Yaakov Akerman, born in Noua Sulita, Romania, 1933, regarding his experiences as a child in Edineti and Zhabokrich

Testimony

Testimony of Yaakov Akerman, born in Noua Sulita, Romania, 1933, regarding his experiences as a child in Edineti and Zhabokrich Religious family; learns in a "heder" and attends a public school. Soviet occupation; return of Romanian rule; anti-Jewish decrees; deportation to Edineti; life in Edineti; transfer to Zhabokrich; life in Zhabokrich including typhus; liberation by the Red Army. Return home; move to Cernauti; sets sail to Eretz Israel and aliya attempt; detention in Cyprus; life in detention in Cyprus; aliya to Israel, 1948; rehabilitation and absorption; marriage, 1966; starts a family.

File Number : 12320

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

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