Testimony of Reuven Frid Porat, born in Zagreb, Yugoslavia, 1933, regarding his experiences on the island of Korcula, Vela Luka, Pozino, the Bari region and other places

Testimony of Reuven Frid Porat, born in Zagreb, Yugoslavia, 1933, regarding his experiences on the island of Korcula, Vela Luka, Pozino, the Bari region and other places Life before the war; attends a Jewish kindergarten and a Jewish school. German occupation, 10 April 1941; decrees including yellow badge; deportation to the southern part of the city; escape to the Italian occupied area with forged Aryan documents and help from a smuggler; reports regularly to the police; his mother transfers the family to the Italian occupied area; transfer to the island of Korcula; life in Vela Luka, December 1941; surrender of the Italian Army; beginning of the German occupation; escape to southern Italy under protection from Tito's partisans, September 1943; life in Pozino. Move to the Bari region; move to Carbonnare; transfer to Santa Croce; visits from Enzo Sereni and Sacharov (Shachar); preparations for aliya to Eretz Israel by the Eretz Israel soldiers; sets sail for Alexandria, May 1944; festive reception in Kantara by the Eretz Israel soldiers; aliya to Eretz Israel, 27 May 1944.