Shifra Zaydel: Forgotten Heroine of Holocaust

By Michael Rosen

Destiny of common Jewish girl in which we can see reflection of all tragical and heroical destiny of all the Jewish people.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Michael Rosen
• Release date: Feb 4, 2019
• ISBN: 9780463330241

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Michael Rozen

Shifra Zaydel-forgotten Heroine of Holocaust

(Chronicle of one life)

Contents

Chapter one. Hostel for Elderly Repatriates on the Shores of the Haifa Bay

Chapter two. Shifra, Khesya and Money of Auschwitz

Chapter three. Terrible road through death

Chapter four. An unexpected meeting

Chapter five. A bit of human happiness

Chapter six. Sad end

Epilogue

THE BIOGRPHY OF MICHAEL ROSEN

Chapter one. Hostel for Elderly Repatriates on the Shores of the Haifa Bay

In a small Israeli town, Kiryat-Yam, on the shores of the Haifa Bay, there is a multi-story shelter for elderly repatriates,

The hostel was built with funds from the American millionaire Feinberg. His bust adorns the lobby of the building. Residents of this shelter, elderly couples and lonely old people who do not have the opportunity to maintain their own apartment. They huddle in 15-meter rooms and exist on a small allowance.

The hostel was built many years ago. Initially, its inhabitants were lonely old men and old women who miraculously survived the Catastrophe. They were lonely, because all their family members died in the camps and ghettos. Years went by. The prisoners of the ghettos and concentration camps gradually went into a better world. They were quietly buried, and new tenants came to their place.

After the start of mass repatriation from the former USSR, the hostel was settled by the elderly couples of Rusim. (So in Israel they call repatriates from the former USSR). These couples, for the most part, were not alone. They had adult children and grandchildren. However, the kids of these old people chose to leave their parents in the care of the Israeli state, while they themselves went further to the countries of the West, looking for a better fate. Some of these kids remained in Israel, but preferred to love their parents at a distance, because housing fees in Israel grew and grew every year, and in the Hostel for repatriate’s old men, the room charge was moderate.

Chapter two. Shifra, Khesya and "Money