Testimony of Yona (Knobel) Amid, born in 1937 in Łódź, Poland, about escaping to Russia and Uzbekistan and immigrating to Eretz Israel illegally aboard the Exodus

Testimony of Yona (Knobel) Amid, born in 1937 in Łódź, Poland, about escaping to Russia and Uzbekistan and immigrating to Eretz Israel illegally aboard the Exodus Father inducted into the Polish Army; sent to Białystok, Poland; escapes to Russia and Uzbekistan; hunger; diseases; witness placed in a Soviet orphanage; hospitalized; reunited with father; returns to Łódź; city is in ruins upon liberation; witness moves to an American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee camp in Germany; separated again from father, who escapes from American police (after being accused of black-market trading); escapes to Marseilles after a stay in a camp in Bamberg, Germany; immigrates to Eretz Israel illegally aboard the Exodus.