Testimony of Efraim Chaim Drori, born in Bucharest, Romania, 1930, regarding his experiences in Bucharest and Israel

Testimony of Efraim Chaim Drori, born in Bucharest, Romania, 1930, regarding his experiences in Bucharest and Israel His childhood in a traditional family, including attending Jewish schools. Life under fascist rule including the theft of property and imposition of anti-Jewish restrictions; pogrom against the Jews including execution by hanging and acts of physical and verbal abuse; dismissal of his father from his work; draft of his father to the Romanian Army reserves; arrival of Jewish refugees from Poland en route to Eretz Israel; meets a childless family; aliya to Eretz Israel using a certificate of the family he had met; departure in a group of three ships, two of which were sunk; attitude of the community in Istanbul; aliya to Eretz Israel, 1944. Life in Israel.