Testimony of Amada (Pilosov) Levi, born in Razgrad, Bulgaria in 1926, regarding her experiences in Varna, Preslav, and Imrenchevo

Testimony of Amada (Pilosov) Levi, born in Razgrad, Bulgaria in 1926, regarding her experiences in Varna, Preslav, and Imrenchevo Daughter of a well-to-do traditional family in Razgrad; father an army officer in World War I; move to Varna when she was one year old due to her father’s work; attempted escape with the members of her youth movement on the “Salvador”; disembarking from the ship in March 1940 due to her father’s opposition; the German occupation in March 1941; expulsion; mother subjected to an invasive search of her private parts and suffers a severe injury; arrival in Preslav; receiving assistance for her mother’s treatment and a place to live because her father had been an army officer during World War I; escape to Imrenchevo; receiving assistance from a friend of her father’s; liberation and return to Varna in 1944; aliya to Israel in 1949; absorption and rehabilitation.