A Story About My Mother and My Aunt
In December of 2003, I made the
acquaintance of Jack
Jackson, son of Michael (Jackubowicz)
Bystra
was very anti-Zionist. They
had about 100 [Jewish] families, so it
was smaller than
There were only two girls that made aliyah in the early 1930’s. [It’s not clear to me whether he meant your mother and aunt with this remark or two others, and I didn’t want to interrupt the flow of this story.] They had started a kibbutz – it was an area where, during the War of Independence, their kibbutz was attacked by the Egyptians. They held [the Egyptians] back and that’s where it [the Egyptian forces] stopped. They were very courageous.
Anyway,
this one time, two girls
[your mother and aunt] were in
There
were two beds. But
this was no good. I
told her [he never specified who this was,
your mother or her sister] that I could give them my bike and they
could use
that to get back to Bystra. That
didn’t
work out either. What
happened
eventually was there was a guy [in
My mother has no recall of this
incident. My aunt
Pnina made aliyah in the middle to
late 1930’s and helped found Kibbutz Gevaram, which is very
close to
Photo from Jackson, Michael (Jakubowics). Head of the Line: A Holocaust Survivor's Memoir. No city: Moriah Press Offset Corp., 2000. Used with permission of Jack Jackson.