Sidi S. Holocaust testimony

Videotape testimony of Sidi S., who was born in Cerna?ut?i, Romania in 1926, one of four children. She recalls their relative affluence; attending Romanian school; Soviet occupation in 1940; German and Romanian invasion in 1941; anti-Jewish measures and violence; ghettoization; her family's return home after mass deportations in late 1941; street killings; deportation with her family in June 1942 to Transnistria; a camp manager observing her performing acrobatics; his exempting her family from deportation because of her performance; transfer with her family to Chetvertinovka; living in barns with animals; lice infestation and rampant disease; transfer to several other camps in the area; forced labor; liberation by Soviet troops in June 1944; their return home; living with relatives because their home was occupied; moving to Bucharest in 1946 in order to emigrate to Palestine; leaving her family to illegally enter Palestine in December 1947; incarceration on Cyprus; arrival in Israel in July 1948; her family joining her a few years later; and her emigration to the United States in 1956. Mrs. S. notes she frequently visits Israel. She shows photographs.

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