Rina Navott and Gabriel Werkstell

Joint testimony of Gabriel Werkstell and Rina (Werkstell) Navott, born in Warsaw in 1924 and 1927, regarding their experiences in Warsaw, escape using a false identity to Italy and Turkey, and aliya to Eretz Israel Childhood and youth of the witnesses, who are siblings, in Warsaw. Outbreak of war and shelling of Warsaw, 1939; escape with their parents to relatives' home; overcrowding; tension, 1940; escape to Trieste using forged passports; escape to Turkey after entry of Italy into war; joining a refugee group in Istanbul; aliya to Eretz Israel with Youth Aliyah, 1940; staying in Ben Shemen; Gabriel joins the Lehi organization, 1942; wounded in an action and capture by the British; death sentance reduced to life imprisonment; his release with Israel's independence; in parallel, Rina's studies and routine.