Samuel Biegun - February 15, 1983
Life in Israel
You lived in a tent the first year?
Yes.
Did your family have one tent?
Yes. My brother and sister were on a kibbutz, so it was me and my parents.
Must have been a very hard life back then.
Very hard life. Well, it wasn't too bad.
Where did you buy your family--where did your family buy their first house?
In ???. That's near where we worked, you know, not too far.
And you continued to work with your father?
Yes, until I got uh, went to the service.
Which was when?
It was in uh, 1950 before--within a year, you know, so I uh, volunteered to go to the army--served two years. I came out and had to go uh, in reserves every three months, once a year.
Were you in the Sinai campaign?
Yes.
Did you go into the uh, the actual front?
Yeah, I was near the front. Went too fast, you know. We had to cut up the Gaza Strip.
So how long did you live in Israel?
Ten years. Forty-nine to '59.
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