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Jenta Lejzerson’s departure for Israel
Jenta Lejzerson and her children traveled from Vienna through Turkey and Syria to Israel.
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... Jenta Lejzerson’s husband already had been living
in Israel before the war. The Gestapo issued an order to
the Judenrat in Bialystok that Mrs. Lejzerson and her
children were to dress up in their finest clothes. They
traveled by railroad to Vienna, where they were taken
to a special terminal. There they met other Jews
allowed to go to Israel. Several days later, the group
departed Vienna for Turkey, accompanied the entire
way by a Nazi officer and two nurses. The liberated
Jews went from Istanbul to Syria and, in mid-
November 1942, arrived in Israel. Throughout the war,
the Jews in the Bialystok ghetto never knew for sure
whether Mrs. Lejzerson and her children had ever
reached Israel. ...Connected nodes