Honored Persons

Dvora Levin

When I was a few months old, my parents decided to leave Poland and began their journey southward. Using smugglers, they crossed the border to Czechoslovakia, and from there to Austria, where they spent several days in the Joint camp in the town of Steyr. After that they crossed the Alps and reached Italy. In Italy the family was housed together with dozens of other families in the area of Milan, at the Scola Cadorna school, which was converted into a DP camp. My father worked as an administrator in the camp. As a well-known table tennis player, he received offers to immigrate to Canada and Australia but eventually rejected them in favor of immigration to Israel. Later, the family moved to southern Italy, to Barletta. We spent two and a half years in Italy, during which the DPs were informed about the declaration of the State of Israel, and the joy was great. From Barletta we continued to Bari, and from there we sailed to Israel on a ship called Campidulio. We arrived in Israel in June 1949.