Testimony of Shmuel Ruben Rav-On, born in Kosovska Mitrovica, Yugoslavia, 1930, regarding his experiences in Kosovska Mitrovica, Albania and Charishte

Testimony of Shmuel Ruben Rav-On, born in Kosovska Mitrovica, Yugoslavia, 1930, regarding his experiences in Kosovska Mitrovica, Albania and Charishte Life before the war; his father is an office holder in the Jewish community; activities to encourage donations to the JNF, Jewish National Fund; visit of Nachum Sokolov to Kosovska Mitrovica. German occupation; confiscation of property; appointment of a representative of the regime as manager of his father's business; meeting with Jewish refugees from Novi Pazar and Belgrade; detention of his brother; escape to Albania; life in Albania from 1943; his father is captured; deportation of his father to detention in Dreniza; escape to the Albanian border with help from an Albanian, later recognized as a Righteous Among the Nations; life en route including crossing the Jablanica Mountains in the snow; escape to Charishte; life in Charishte with Jews under the protection of the villagers; liberation. Return to Kosovska Mitrovica; aliya to Israel, 1948.