ב״ה
שהחיינו והיגיענו לזמן הזה
To a moment I can write on my own page
At my own pace
Zichronot זיכרונות from the past
There is so much to write
It’s hard to know where to start
However, there should be a starting point to every venture
👀

It was in the summer of 1949
חודש תמוז
We were standing at the port next to the ship we were to board. waiting for just another piece of paper, another important document. My mother begging and crying to the captain of the ship ‘ please do not leave us here׳ the document is gonna arrive here in a short while.
Oh indeed the ‘important paper has arrived’ and we were set to go. No sooner we ducked the ship the gates were closed behind us. No more entering !
The anchor of the ship was lifted as the sailing movements, of boat was felt in every rhythm of ourselves.
*Luckily we were able to escape this time after a failed try about 2 years earlier. The spreading winds of Communism were felt all over and the “word” was to escape. We just left the city of Satu-Mare in Romania. Heading to ארץ ישראל *
With just some meager supplies and belonging. However B”H we made it. We are on the boat and sailing. My mother was so sea sick however overwhelmed we R going to ארץ ישראל to ירושלים

… to be continued…

CONTINUED
The journey from Satu-Mare to the Port of Haifa Isreal took about 4 days. All I remember is the fish jumping up hi in the sky again and again entertains for a girly less than 4years old.

And of course the emotional moment has arrived stepping a foot on Israeli soil. My parents bent to the ground and kissed the ground. Only a fiction a short time ago. Now turned a reality. A step that changed reality forever.
Standing on the promised land
ארץ ישראל אדמת הקודש שניתנה לאבותינו אברהם יצחק ויעקב
Me myself I am overcome with emotions and crying as I am typing.
My parents people that has lost almost everything
Are standing here and viewing the beautiful land given to us by the
ריבונו של עולם עצמו נתן לנו את המתנה הזאת
הארץ שה״ הראה למשה רבינו ולא זכה להיכנס בה
Can you imagine how emotionally overtaken these people were! About 5 years earlier they escaped the claws of evil a monstrous Era not seen since בריאת העולם
People that were able to snatch away from the Tyranny
of היטלר יימח שמו
אבא ואימא שלנו עומדים עים
שלושה ילדים קטנים
רגלייהם בארץ הקודש. שרבים לא זכו לעמוד על אדמתה
עומדים מודהמים לשעה ארוכה
כן נתחיל מחדש אבל ממשיכים בדרך אבותינו בעבודת הקודש

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On way to Beni-Berak
Luckily we had an uncle that Thad had tiny 2 story primitive brick building isolated on the outskirts of the Beni-Brak
A building next to a leather factory he owned however not operational. We were surrounded by nature! Absolutely NO neighbors. It was us upstairs and uncle פעטער מרדכי with children down stairs. The main water valve was on the roof or nearby. Had to be open & closed as needed .there was a big round crock stuck in the wall that was removed and water was coming into a main hold. Oops the cork was in wall again. Luckily we had sort of a bathroom.
We all need to thank ה׳ to this day! And continue to Thank ה׳
על כל החסד שעשה ויעשה עימנו
ב״ה שלא היצתרכנו ללכת למעברות. Those shanty towns that families were stuck in for many years with no private facilities במעברות / shanties people lived under duress! Horrible conditions.
B”H we had a roof over our heads a big square hole. However, my parents and my uncle made it work for the meanwhile!
Oh, so our natural friends were
the coyotes that lived in dungeon they dug out in the earth. They would scream all night into the morning. There was a big Beehive 🐝 facility that belonged to a fellow that let us see the process, the way he emptied the honey into big containers.
This guy must have had the best honey 🍯 in the world and I tell you why!
אחרון אחרון חביב

CONTINUED
Beni-brak in those times / days 1950 -60s consisted of many many citrus🍊 orchards .
פרדסים פרדסים מלא עים עצי תפוזים 🍊
For miles and miles of walking All you saw was orchards of 🍊
With some low key housings on the side.
Well our natural neighbors were those beautiful orchards in season when those little yellow white flowers were budding the sites and the smell was מעין גן עדן. Those dark greens leaves with those yellow buds. Where breathtaking. Not even the orchards in Florida can compete.
However, quite frightening to be so isolated to an extreme.
BH we had פעטער מורדכי with us We were strong people coming from the same place
Coming from חורבן אירופה
Were everything was taken away from us! However we had ביטחון. וה״ יעזור ומתחילים מחדש
My mother was able to make everything look nice fresh and ‘Gusto’ a Hungarian expression she even ironed our clothing remember with a coal iron!
Was a big ‘ black klutzy’ piece of pointy metal that opened you put in hot stuff❤️‍🔥 to keep the ironer warm. Possibly she made her own starch so the dresses and my father’s shirts look clean & Gusto!
My mother, she was never lazy she had an old fashioned ‘Singer’sewing machine with a pedal * not electric yet!
Oh she was so creative
There is so much to write about all that she sewed
* besides sewing the prettiest dresses. She also sewed at times ציצית ,טלית קטן
פאר די פונוויטשער ישיבה בחורים
Yes, this was my dear mother ע״ה
Will elaborate in the coming chapters