relatioNet BAR AH 24 HE RO

BAR AH 24 HE RO

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RelatioNet BAR AH 24 HE
BARBALATA AHARON \ ISRAEL
Interviewer:

Full Name: Dana Grabios
Email: da_n_a@walla.co.il
Address: Israel, KFAR SABA

Survivor:

Code: RelatioNet BAR AH 24 HE RO Family Name:Barbalata First Name:Aharon
Father Name: Izhak Barbalata Mother Name: Shprinza Barblata Birth Date: 13/3/1924 Birth town: Herlau
Town In Holocaust: Herlau Country In Holocaust: Romania
Profession (Main) In Holocaust: makes barrles Status (Today): Alive

Interview With Barbalata Aharon

Aharon was born in a small village in Romania called “Herlau”. He lived there until he was 14-15 years old and then started the Second World War.
The way he passed through out the war:
1942- He was transferred to a city in Russia called “Rozshnize” that was occupied by the Germans. He remembers two people he worked with: Benny Rosenthal and Nattan Cuten. He was alone, and separated from his family from that day on, until the end of the war. In this place he stayed for about three years.
Later on he was transferred to “Yaakobast” to build barrels that actually was his profession. There he stayed about a year, and then moved on to “Doboroze” to do coal mines. He remembers one friend who worked with him and studied with him at school: Haimovitz Leon.
From there he was shifted to a small town in Romania, and there he worked in construction for the German army. He was there for a year. From that place he remembers: Moshe Shechter.
Aharon actually had a lot of luck during the war, he was a man with profession and for that reason the Germans used him through out the war for many different jobs.
Aharon came to Israel in 1964; here he served in the i.p.f and build a family, a house and lives until today.

The people Aharon still remembers:
Lupu Laxer, Menashe Frayer, Haim Chasho, Itzik Putnaro,Shmil Putnaro.

A special experience that he remembers:
One of his teachers that also was a prof. called Puplinger who was very known and familiar. He was from Russia and everybody respected him very much.
One night the German army took him and his family late at night to an unknown place, and no one saw them again.

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Harlau at 2006

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The synagogue from the outside.

The synagogue from the inside.

Inside the synagogue- lamps with jewish resident's names on it.

The municipality building.

Information about the town- Hârlău

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Hârlău is a town in Iaşi County, Moldavia, Romania. As of 2004 the estimated population is 11,271. It was the capital city of Moldova in the 15th century.

In the center of the town there are the ruins of the Musatini Princely Court. It was the Stefan ce Mare's favourite residence and later Mihnea Voda moved there the capital of Moldova (the 2nd of October 1624). Since 1985, the House of the chancellor Tautu's descendants has been sheltering the History and Etnographic Museum. Around Hirlau anybody can admire the geto-dacian fortress from Catalina-Cotnari, that has been lasting since IV-III centuries B.C., the ruins of Latin School from Cotnari, those of the Castle from Ceplenita belonging to the chronicler Grigore Ureche and the small convents from Deleni .

Year	Number	% of Jews in the General Population
1803	784
1838	1,008
1859	1,389
1886	2,254	56.6
1899	2,718	59.9
1910	2,023
1930	2,032	22.3
1941	1,736	18.0
1942	1,300
1947	1,936
2004	11,271

Hârlău's official website:
http://www.primaria-hirlau.ro/index.html