Testimony of Ze'ev Yitzhaki, born in Iasi, Romania, 1936, regarding his experiences in Iasi during the war
Early childhood.
Increase in anti-Semitism, 1939; anti-Jewish orders and legislation; pogrom at police stations and trains, June 1941; the bombings.Liberation by the Red Army, summer of 1944; joining the Dror organization; moving to a children's home in Piatra Neat; boarding the illegal immigrant ship Pan York, December 1947; exile to Cyprus; aliya to Eretz Israel, March 1948; absorption.
Testimony of Mia (Ordinon) Beili, born in Cernauti, Romania in 1938, regarding her experiences as a child in the Cernauti Ghetto and on the Aryan side
Life before the war; assimilated, Zionist family;
Deportation to the Cernauti Ghetto; Cernauti Ghetto life including overcrowding; smuggled from the ghetto with her parents and taken to the smuggler's home; life on the Aryan side; retreat by the Germans; liberation by the Red Army;
Move to Brasov with help from the Jewish community; she attends a Jewish school; attempt to make illegal aliya to Eretz Israel on the "Pan York" ship; detention in Cyprus;...
Testimony of Elemer Diker, born in Pake, Romania, 1928, regarding his experiences in Pake, Parajd, the Targu Mures Ghetto, Auschwitz-Birkenau and other places
His childhood in the only Jewish family in Pake.
Life under Hungarian rule including the ban on business administration by Jews, closure of his family's shop and closure of the Jewish schools; German Army occupation [of Pake], 1944; deportation to Parajd; transfer to the Targu Mures Ghetto; Targu Mures Ghetto life, including the attitude of the Hungarian gendarmes; deportation to Auschwitz-Birkenau; death of his brother and mother in camp; transfer...
Testimony of Josef Zamostianu, born in Saveni, Romania, 1931, regarding his experiences in Saveni, Dorohoi, Nazareni, an orphanage and more
Childhood in a Zionist, traditional home.
Anti-Jewish decrees including yellow badge, 1940; transfer of men from Saveni to labor; concentration of the women and children in a camp; return home at the end of the day, 1940 [?]; transfer to Dorohoi on foot, 1941; life with relatives; transfer to Atachi by train; crossing the Dniester River towards Mogilev; life in a barn; harrassment by Ukrainians; transfer on foot through the villages in the area; transfer back to...
Testimony of Rae Rose (Rothman) Rubinstein, born in Brisbane, Australia, 1923, regarding her experiences in the Australian Army, Bergen-Belsen DP camp, Linz DP camp, Wels DP camp and in other places
Service in the Australian Air Force during World War II, 1945-1949 [should be: 1939-1945].
Travel to London, 1945; volunteers to work in Bergen-Belsen DP camp in the context of the Jewish Relief office, 1946; work in the camp as the person responsible for children ages 0-6 years old and women who are pregnant; help to the aliya institute [Jewish Agency] to coordinate the issue of forged documents and illegal...
Testimony of Lea (Friedman) Muszkat, born in Bialystok, Poland, 1938, regarding her experiences in Bialystok, Kazakhstan, Pavlodar, Poland, Liegnitz and other places
Red Army occupation of Bialystok, 1939; burning of her father's factory; disappearance of her father; deportation with her family on a train to the north of Kazakhstan for three months; life in a Sovkhoz in F---- D--; attitude of the Kazakh neighbors; move to Pavlodar, late 1944; life in Pavlodar for one year.
Move to Poland, late 1945; scarlet fever illness; hospitalization in a hospital; reunion with her mother in Liegnitz; life in the...
Testimony of Nisim Nathan, born in Plovdiv, Bulgaria, 1922, regarding his experiences in Belgium, Vidin, Plovdiv and a labor camp
His childhood within the Jewish community, including his education; emigration to Belgium; move back to Bulgaria, several years later; his father's service in the Bulgarian Army; activities in Beitar.
Deportation to Vidin; transfer back to Plovdiv; life in Plovdiv including decree to wear a yellow badge; draft to forced labor in a labor camp; death of his brother in a labor camp; camp life including hunger and punishment; death of his mother; activities of Bulgarian Gendarmerie...
Testimony of Samuel Scharf, born in Sighet, Romania, 1919, regarding his experiences in Sighet, Iasi, Cernauti, Stalingrad, Lyubimovka and other places
His childhood in Sighet in a family of Vizhnitz hasidim; his family's move to Iasi, 1935; activities in Torah V'Avodah; community's concern for refugees from Poland, 1939; move to the Soviet area, summer 1940; life in Cernauti; move to work in a steel factory in Stalingrad, autumn 1940.
German Army occupation, June 1941; labor in a quarry in Frolovo; transfer to labor drilling oil in Lyubimovka and in a nearby kolkhoz; approach of the military front;...
Testimony of Miriam Feffer, born in Kaunas, Lithuania, 1922, regarding her experiences in Kaunas and Krumau
Her childhood in a traditional family of craftsmen, including her attending a Tarbut school; work and activities in Hapoel Hatzair.
Help to refugees who were transferred from Poland and Germany; Red Army occupation of Kaunas; deportation of wealthy people and business owners; German Army occupation of Kaunas, 1941; life under German occupation including anti-Jewish acts of abuse; deportation to the Kaunas Ghetto; Kaunas Ghetto life including an "Aktion"; murder of her parents and two younger...
Testimony of Bella (Iagodnik) Goldstein, born in Ostrow Mazowiecka, Poland, 1931, regarding her experiences in Ostrow Mazowiecka, the Soviet Union, Tashkent, Siberia and more
Childhood including being orphaned of her mother.
Outbreak of the war; escape to the Soviet Union, deportation to Siberia; labor of her father in logging trees; mutual help among the refugees; attends a Soviet elementary school, for about two years; transfer to the Asian Soviet Union with the approach of the German Army; arrival at Tashkent; life in Tashkent including hunger and robberies; transfer to a kolkhoz; life in a kolkhoz...