Arie Leo Yehuda Rufeizen

Testimony of Arie Leo Yehuda Rufeizen, born in 1926 in Ostrava, Czechoslovakia, about his immigration to Eretz Israel in 1936 Offspring of an affluent family in Ostrava; father practices law and chairs the Zionist Organization in Czechoslovakia in 1921–1939; father participates in establishing the Hebrew Univesity in Jerusalem and in the last pre-war Zionist Congress in 1939; mother active in WIZO; witness attends a Jewish school until fifty grade; sister immigrates to Eretz Israel in 1935; plans to immigrate to Eretz Israel; does so in 1936; mother does so in 1938; father does so in 1939.