Testimony of Yitzhak Shechter, born in Tesin, Czechoslovakia, 1916, regarding his experiences in Bratislava, Rhodes, Ferramonti Di Tarsia and other places, and his aliya to Eretz Israel, 1944

Testimony of Yitzhak Shechter, born in Tesin, Czechoslovakia, 1916, regarding his experiences in Bratislava, Rhodes, Ferramonti Di Tarsia and other places, and his aliya to Eretz Israel, 1944 Life before the war; activities in the Beitar movement; his family's move to Poland; move to Bratislava; life in aliya training, in preparation for aliya to Eretz Israel. Illegal aliya in the direction of Eretz Israel on the "Pencho" ship; sets sail on the Danube River; sinking of the ship near Camila Nisi; rescue by the Italian Army; transfer to Rhodes; life in Rhodes under the protection of the Italian Army; coordination into a Jewish leadership; transfer to Ferramonti Di Tarsia, 1942; camp life including activities in the context of the Beitar movement; leadership of the movement's members by Yehoshua Halevi; visit by the Secretary of State of the Vatican; release, 1943; move to Bari, 1944; aliya to Eretz Israel by ship, 1944.