Bura Cohn 's parents were also born in Suliţa and he grew up with two brothers. He was an active member of the Zionist youth group Dror Habonim before the war. He and his father spent the war years as forced laborers in Tiraspol, before they were liberated by the Red Army. He was then trained as carpenter and glazier.
Hauling Stones
Botoşani, Romania
Bura Cohn remembers in this clip, how he suffered under forced labor during the war. He and his father worked in a stone quarry and paved roads without much food and very little sleep.
Bura experienced his war years under Romanian command in Tiraspol. Romania became an ally of Nazi Germany in 1940 under the fascist dictatorship of Ion Antonescu. Romanian armed forces, for instance, controlled Transnistria and guarded the Pechera concentration camp. Bura like many others suffered from starvation and endured the war years in miserable living conditions.