Jews of the Areas Annexed to the USSR in World War II

Born Reni, Bessarabia, 1903. Discusses: memories from Russian occupation, June 1940; relations between Russian Jews and Gentiles; family's livelihood; life under Communists; language spoken amongst Jews; atmosphere in village; business; evacuation out of fear of Germans; information on those exiled to Siberia; members of village who took part in war. Was Yiddish and Hebrew teacher, 1920's and 1930's. Discusses: family; memories from Russian occupation of Stefanesti, Romania; being drafted to Romanian army; how they were received as soldiers returning to Czernowitz; place of Jews amongst soldiers; changes that came to Jewish cultural life with Communism; Jewish schools and organizations; his work in Jewish school; textbooks; cultural institutions in Czernowitz; situation in Bessarabia and Bukovina; working as teacher; students' motivation to work; Jewish life; expulsion and evacuations from Britchan; situation for communist Jews during first part of Soviet regime; absence of Jewish newspaper in Chernovitz; Jewish authors; Yiddish theatre performing in Czernowitz; journals written about events in Czernowitz, 1940; activity of Jewish schools; government supervision of Jewish activity; half-German Jews in Czernowitz, 1940 and their place in local Jewish community.