Testimony of Yhudith Penzer Even, born in Opacionka, Poland, 1934, regarding her experiences in Lublica, Opacionka, Pakhtakor, an orphanage and with the “Teheran Children”

Testimony of Yhudith Penzer Even, born in Opacionka, Poland, 1934, regarding her experiences in Lublica, Opacionka, Pakhtakor, an orphanage and with the “Teheran Children” Her grandfather and grandmother's home in Lublica. Outbreak of the war including air-raids, September 1939; escape of her family members from Opacionka; deportation on a freight train to Siberia; transfer on trucks until the Irkutsk forest; labor by the adults in exchange for food ration coupons; her father's illness; transfer by train to Uzbekistan; life in Pakhtakor including hunger and typhus disease; hospitalization in a hospital; death of her father; life in a Polish orphanage; preparations for aliya to Eretz Israel; move by train to Teheran with the “Teheran Children” group; visit by Zipora Shertok; move by ship to Karachi; move to Egypt; meets Jewish Brigade soldiers on the train to Atlit, 1943; convalescence in the Kfar Hasidim religious youth village; meets Henrietta Szold; grouping of the children according to their religious affiliation.