Nathan Segal (1894 – 1943)
Nathan Segal was born in Dorohoi, Romania in 1894, to Leibisch and Rachel. He lived with his wife, Lote (nee Kalisher), and his two daughters, Ruth and Lyvja, in Czernowitz, Bukovina. Nathan made a living as a tradesman and bookkeeper. In late 1941, the family was incarcerated in the Czernowitz ghetto, and then deported to the Mikhailowka labor camp, where Nathan was appointed representative of the Jewish prisoners. Amongst his jobs, he was ordered to draw up lists of children, elderly and sick inmates who were designated for execution. Segal did his best to help his fellow prisoners. On one occasion, on discovering the desperate situation of the Ukrainian Jewish inmates, he arranged for clothes and equipment that had arrived with new prisoners to be distributed amongst the needy. Another time, when an epidemic of intestinal typhus broke out at the camp in September 1943, Segal succeeded in concealing the diagnosis from the SS, going as far as to bribe the camp commandant. Most of the patients survived thanks to the dedicated treatment of the camp doctors.
In August 1943, the Segal family was sent to the Tarassiwka labor camp together with the Jewish Mikhailowka inmates. There, Segal continued to represent the Jewish prisoners, together with his deputy, engineer Heinz Rosengarten. At Tarassiwka too, Segal worked to improve the inmates' living conditions. He persuaded Josef Elsasser, labor manager of the Dohrmann paving company to travel to Czernowitz in order to request assistance from the families that had remained, and from the Jewish community. Elsasser, Segal and Rosengarten set out on their mission, but Segal and Rosengarten were detained by the Romanian authorities - Rosengarten on the shores of the River Bug and Segal in Mogilev. Elsasser continued on to Czernowitz, where he succeeded in collecting two trucks' worth of clothes, medicine and other equipment, which he brought back to the camp. Before Segal's departure from Mogilev, the Tulchin district commander offered to save him, but Segal declined, and returned with Elsasser to his wife and children. During the night of 10 December 1943, the Tarassiwka camp was liquidated, and Nathan, his wife and their two daughters were shot, together with the 435 remaining Jewish prisoners at the camp.
Arnold Daghani (1909 – 1985)
Born in Suceava, Bukovina, to a German-speaking family. In the late 1920s, he studied art in Munich and then in Paris. In the early 1930s, he moved to Bucharest where he changed his last name from Korn to Daghani and began working as a professional artist. After his marriage in June 1940 to Anişoara Rabinovici, Daghani and his wife moved to Czernowitz (Cernăuţi). In October 1941, with the initiation of Operation Barbarossa, the two were deported to the Czernowitz ghetto, and then sent to forced labor at Ladizhin in June 1942. Two months later, they were incarcerated in the Mikhailowka labor camp in Transnistria. In June 1943, Daghani was ordered to create a mosaic of the German eagle at the Dohrmann company headquarters in the adjacent town of Gaisin. A month later, the couple escaped to the Bershad ghetto. Through the intervention of the Red Cross, they were freed on 31 December 1943, and made their way to Tiraspol. They arrived in Bucharest in March 1944, where they remained until the end of the war. In 1958, the couple immigrated to Israel, but eventually settled in England.
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