Testimony of Matilda Mimi (Alhalel) Naghel, born in Silistra, Romania, 1937, regarding her experiences as a child in Constanta, Alunis and in Cobadin camp

Testimony of Matilda Mimi (Alhalel) Naghel, born in Silistra, Romania, 1937, regarding her experiences as a child in Constanta, Alunis and in Cobadin camp Life before the war; her family was a well-to-do Sephardi, traditional family originally from Turkey. Escape to Constanta after receiving information regarding persecution by the Romanians; escape to Alunis with her family, spring 1941; life in Alunis; receives shelter from a non-Jewish family in exchange for payment; informed on and deportation to Cobadin under the guard of Germans; smuggled out of the camp by a friend of her father, with 10 other families; smuggled out of the camp using the claim that it was due to a search for "working hands"; informed on; escape to Constanta; transfer to labor in a quarry and in a weapons factory; deportation of her father to Transnistria; return of her father, 1944. Activities in the Dror Habonim movement; move to Bucharest, 1954; aliya to Israel, 1962.