Surviving with the few lucky ones the horrors of the Romanian Holocaust being deported with my family to Transnistria - Ukraine during the second world war, we did everything we could to get repatriated.

Our direction was Satu-Mare and Baia-Mare, where my parents were from and where we expected to find and join our family with whom we could not keep in touch during the war. In Satu-Mare we had to face the cruelest reality !

ALL ! ALL ! ALL ! of them (except my aunt Iren who survived with very damaged health) had fallen victim to the final solution of extermination of the Jews by the nazi Germany. During the war, Satu-Mare and Baia-Mare were under the Hungarian administration, a very close ally of Hitler’s Germany.