Eva Boros - February 11, 1983
Israel
Well, I just would like to know uh, what...
In short I can give you. Honestly, this is really. I mean, I thought it is more relevant to the Holocaust.
Yeah, it's, it's just always important to know what happened...
Do you want to know actually, what is uh, where my father is buried and so on? Or that is not relevant?
That's--whatever you would like to tell. I thought, since you were telling about how you arrived in Israel you might tell me like...
Sure, yeah.
if you got together with your brother and sister and where you went to school and you must have married there. And how you came to this country. Just shortly, if you don't mind.
Okay, sure, no. I went--I was sent to uh, Jerusalem to Beit Benot Mizrachi, which is a all girls school, a religious girls school and uh, I was with two other friends from uh, Czechoslovakia also. They were actually Holocaust survivors. They were both in concentration camp. In fact, there were more but I'm talking about these two special friends because we were close. Uh, and uh, so we were in that Beit Benot Mizrachi. They taught us Hebrew first then they put in the regular school. And uh, we had to--and that was in the Aliat Noar, which uh, was actually kept by the J.O.I.N.T. American money. Uh, and uh, we were educated an education part time. That was a housekeeping school. So we had regular education and then we had to work four hours in kitchen, in cooking and they actually taught us, these teachers the manners, how to serve and I mean, like a, how do you call these uh, schools, these very posh schools here, the finishing school, okay? That's more or less. And many of the teachers, these ladies were from Germany--Jews from Germany that knew what to do, which actually was wonderful. But at a certain point uh, I have had it and my brother arrived and he was sent to Mikveh Sayer, which is an agricultural school in Israel, and uh, they were more kept like Hakh-sharah, which was uh, preparing them to go to a kibbutz settlement. And I being very uh, idealistic at this point, I wanted to be part of this too, so I asked for a transfer. But uh, before this uh, when we arrived the Haganah, the Irgun Haganah came and asked us if we are, whoever is interested in taking part in the Haganah. And all of us did. All, all of us girls that came at this point uh, because uh, because of the background. We just felt that this is the right thing to do. Uh, meanwhile, the British uh, had problems in Israel. You know what went on, I don't have to go in this detail. But we were actually given a uh, training by the Haganah, a weekly training. Uh, we were pa...pa...taught uh, gun, u...using of gun. Uh, jujitsu and ???, which is the, the...
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