Shmuel Natanzon

Testimony of Shmuel Natansohn, born in Bielsko Biala, 1930, regarding his experiences as a child in Przemysl, labor camps in Siberia, Samarkand and travel to Eretz Israel with the "Teheran Children" His immediate family; religious holidays at home and family gatherings; Jewish community life; school studies; the 1938 riots; the youth movement in the village. Entry of the Germans into Przemysl; murder of his father by the Germans; search for his father together with his twin brother; execution of hundreds of Jews in Przemysl; living with relatives in Podhajce; deportation on trains to Siberia; labor in a Siberian labor camp; transfer to Samarkand; typhus; daily life in the Polish orphanage; death from starvation and disease; departure from Samarkand to Iran with the Polish Army; travel on trucks to Teheran; daily life in an orphanage in Teheran; travel to Eretz Israel via Suez; travel by train to Atlit; reception in the streets; treatment of the "Teheran children" in Magdiel; dividing the children among various educational institutions; studies in Ben-Shemen; drafted to the Jewish police unit within the British police force; enlists in the IDF; participates in the conquest of Eilat; reunion with his mother and sister in Israel; career soldier in the IDF; university studies; starting a family; work in Bank Hapoalim.