My life, as a child, during the holocaust in Romania

United States Holocaust Memorial Museum 

My life, as a child, during the holocaust in Romania 

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Testimony: “My life, as a child, during the holocaust in Romania”; 10 pages, in English by Liviu Schapira, born 1934 in Piatra Neamtz, Romania. Schapira describes his experiences primarily between 1939-1944. He describes the rise of the Iron Guard to power, expulsion from school for being Jewish, the murder of family members and other Jews by the Iron Guard, anti-Jewish laws and restrictions, how his father’s instincts helped the family avoid deportation, liberation by the Russians, and life after liberation.