Avraham Enoch

Testimony of Avraham Enoch, born in Lodz, Poland, 1927, regarding his experiences in Lodz, Bielsko, Bialystok, Lwow, Siberia and other places Life with a mother from an observant home and a father from a secular, educated home; his parents' divorce; remarriage by his mother; move to Bielsko, 1929; draft of his father to the Polish Army before the outbreak of the war, 1939; Outbreak of the war; escape with family members; arrival at Wadowice together with Polish Army soldiers; staying in the home of Jews; arrival of his mother; return to Bielsko; wanderings toward the East, autumn 1939; arrival at his father's family in Lodz; unsuccessful attempt by his mother to persuade members of the family to cross the border to the Soviet Union; crossing the border; arrival in Bialystok, late autumn 1939; joining of a Jewish soldier to the family during the wanderings; having the soldier become his mother's partner; move of the family to Lwow; proposal by the Soviet government that they accept Soviet citizenship; refusal of the offer; deportation to Siberia, June 1940; life in a sovkhoz near Krasnoyarsk; Operation Barbarossa, June 1941; permit to travel freely in the Soviet Union; move to Kazakhstan; death of his father; joining a framework of Polish refugees; joining the framework of the Teheran Children; departure for Iran, 1942; life in Iran; Aliya to Eretz Israel, February 1943.