Testimony of Miriam (Shein) Tzidon, born in Osijek, Yugoslavia, 1934, regarding her experiences as a young child in Osijek and Assisi

Testimony of Miriam (Shein) Tzidon, born in Osijek, Yugoslavia, 1934, regarding her experiences as a young child in Osijek and Assisi Her family before the war. Activities by her father in Hashomer Hazair to help Jewish refugees from Austria; German occupation and restrictions on Jews; arrest of her grandfather and his release in exchange for ransom money; information regarding the payment of forced contributions by the Jewish community; her family's escape to Assisi, Italy, with help from smugglers and the Italian underground; life in Assisi; attends a school with nuns as the teachers; her father's activities in the Italian underground as a translator of the BBC news; German occupation, late 1943; escape to the mountains; return to Assisi after the danger passes. Move to Rome with help from Jewish Brigade soldiers, 1945; move to Bari; aliya to Eretz Israel using certificates on the "Princess Kathleen" ship; absorption.