The story of Gizela - Afik Shiraz. Abinun Shmuel

days there was no nursery, and little Samuel stayed in the crib with me for a while, day and night. Fortunately, he was born in the summer, since I had only six improvised cloth diapers that did not soak, which were hardly enough to dry between laundries. Most of the day, I was busy with washing the diapers and taking them off. In winter we would light a fire and place the diapers over the oven to dry. These were very difficult times. Occasionally, parcels from America would be sent to the Jewish community, but first of all they distributed their contents to acquaintances and associates, and only afterwards did the other residents come to take, but until I arrived I barely found anything. Sometimes I would find an item that could be improvised, such as a man's shirt, from which I cut the back and it used as a diaper to Sami. We learned to live without anything. Noting – nothing. No coffee and milk? - Drink tea. There is water. This is how we went through those first years. At the end of the war, Tito turned to the Jewish-Serbian revolutionary Moshe Piada, and asked him how he could repay him for his work in the war in the partisans’ framework. Piada asked to allow his people, the Jews, to leave and immigrate to Israel, and the authority was granted in 1948. We, along with my brother-in-law Binko and his family, were allowed to leave Yugoslavia, while my sister-in-law Rosica, who was a soldier, was not allowed to leave and remained in Sarajevo. As for me, I wanted to leave Yugoslavia as quickly as possible since I no longer felt the sense of home. Any person I came across was suspected of collaborating with the Germans. Many Ustasha, who just walked the streets yesterday when the letter U proudly put on their hats, they saw the state becoming communist under Tito's rule and replaced the U with a red star. I was worried of all of them and couldn't trust anyone. Before immigrating to Israel, Leon bought a lift, a kind of large wooden crate. Entered in furniture, basic kitchenware and one sewing machine, and sent it by ship to Israel. In December 1948 we boarded the ship "Kefalos," and in the Hebrew alias "Dromit" which began its journey in Mexico. Apart from the equipment sent by lift, we took two suitcases with us containing only clothing. Immigration to Israel (December 1948)

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