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.
Memoirs of Chaim Chacham, born in Iasi, Romania, 1936, regarding his experiences in hiding in Iasi and letters sent to his father, Avram Hahamu Chacham, head of the Jewish community in Iasi
Life before the war; activities of his father, Avram Hahamu Chacham, as head of the Jewish community in Iasi, 1940-1944; his mother Esther (Shtruminger) Chacham.
In hiding in a cellar underneath the synagogue; capture of his father by a German Army patrol (arrested with binoculars and a camera when Jews were required to turn in all the optical equipment they were holding), life in hiding during the pogrom in Iasi;...
File Number : 8526
Type of Material : Official Documentation, Memoirs, Letter
Testimony of Batia (Blima) (Rozentzveig) Kahana, born in 1931 in Iasi, Moldovia-Romania, about life in Iasi, persecution of Jews, and the pogrom in Iasi
Childhood in Iasi; family life; persecution of Jews and antisemitism before the Holocaust; the pogrom in Iasi; activity in the Dror Habonim movement; immigration to Israel in 1948
Memoirs of Josef Finkelstein, "Iasii Mei" ("My Iasi"), regarding the pogrom in Iasi, 27 June 1941
The file includes:
- Confirmation by the commander of Calarasi camp that Iosef Finkelstein was an inmate in the camp after his deportation from Iasi, 06 July-25 August 1941;
- Death certificates of Hersch Finkelstein and Leonte Finkelstein, who were murdered during the pogrom;
- Photographs of a Jewish cemetery in Romania.
File Number : 8401
Type of Material : Memoirs, Certification, Death Certificate
Testimony of Mona (Cardincioso) Scharf, born in 1934 in Iasi, Romania, regarding her experiences as a child in Iasi
Life before the war; the rise of anti-Semitism in the late 1930s; the father's affiliation with leftist movements; the family's failed escape attempt to Darabani in 1940; the removal of the family from the house on June 29, 1941; gathered together in the yard; release of women and children; the murder of the father and uncles in the "death train"; wearing a yellow badge; expulsion from the Romanian school; joining the Hashomer Hatzair movement in 1944; illegal aliya to Eretz Israel on the "Pan...
Testimony of Miriam (Klughaupt) Nir, born in Iasi, Romania, 1926, regarding her experiences in Iasi
Childhood in Iasi including religious life and a Zionist atmosphere; attends a Hebrew kindergarten and a Jewish school; move to a Romanian private school, 1939; increasing displays of antisemitism; worsening attitude toward Jews; yellow badge.
The Iasi pogrom; Red Army occupation of Iasi.
Life after the war; meeting with Transnistria orphans; unsuccessful aliya attempt to Eretz Israel on the ship "Medinat Hajehudim", detention in Cyprus; aliya to Eretz Israel; enlists into the Palmach; [emigration from...
Testimony of Rachel (Feldman) Gam, born in Podoleni, Romania, 1923, regarding her experiences in Podoleni and Iasi
Her childhood including attending six years of elementary school; orphaned of her father; help to her mother, selling fish.
Outbreak of the war; deportation to Iasi.
Work as a salesperson; activities in a Zionist youth organization with the aim of making aliya to Eretz Israel; aliya to Israel, 1951.
Testimony of Yanko Mariam Maria (Yanko) Rotman, born in Iasi, Romania, 1929, regarding her experiences in Iasi and Israel
Her childhood in a Zionist family.
Anti-Jewish legislation; deterioration of the economic situation; expulsion from the school, based on racial background, 1940; pogrom in Iasi, June 1941; deportation of her father on a train to Ialomita [?]; release of her mother and the children.
Gathering together in Iasi with other survivors; orphanhood; illegal aliya attempt to Eretz Israel, 1947; detention in Cyprus; aliya to Eretz Israel, 1947; life in Israel.
Documentation of Leiba Herscu regarding her experiences in the Holocaust, 1941-1948
- Certification that Leiba Herscu was in the "Death Train," in which Jews who had survived the Iasi Pogrom were deported, 28-29 June 1941;
- Certification that Leiba Herscu returned to Iasi, 06 September 1941;
- Survivor's notebook certifying that Leiba Herscu was deported to Podul Iloaei, where she remanied from June-September 1941 [?].