Testimony of Margalit Fried Orbach, born in Saarbrücken, Germany, 1926 regarding her family's escape to Poland under the League of Nations' mandate, their subsequent move to Italy, and her aliya to Eretz Israel in 1938, and service as a professional nurse in a detention camp in Cyprus; her integration and rehabilitation

Daughter of family of Polish immigrants in good economic standing; she moved to live in Illingen for a year due to family difficulties; antisemitic capture of her father, 1934. Along with her mother and siblings she fled to the parents' families in Poland; life in her father's family's home in Pabianice without her mother; moving with her mother to her grandparents' home in Lodz for a short time; moving to Trieste; receiving assistance from the Eretz Israel Office; her mother's suicide attempt to facilitate obtaining certificates for Eretz Israel for the children; her mother's meeting with Henrietta Szold and receiving assistance from her to bring the witness and siblings to Israel one by one. Aliya to Israel, 1938; nursing studies; service as a nurse in the detention camp in Cyprus; life rehabilitation.