Item jaffee_collection_201 - Georgina Jaffee Family in Russia, "Photograph 4"

Photograph of Feige (nee Etkind) and Abraham Kublitz on arrival in Israel from Vilna with daughters Yona and Sarah.

Anecdiatl recollection: "As for the circumstances of our getting to Israel - I believe I wrote it to you, but I am not sure that all the details are in the book, so I will repeat what I know. I know that after the war ( between 1947 - 1950) my mother, Feiga, was located by the family in South-Africa in Vilna (USSR). I heard often the name of Clara Bloom in association with the family in South-Africa. They started to be in conection with her by letters. They looked for an opportunity to help her with money, but as money couldn't be transferred to Russia at that time, they looked for another solution. My parents were suggested (adviised) to leave Russia to Poland since Poland at those days was opened to transfers of foreign currency.
Thanks to the fact that my father was born in Vilna and lived there all his life and as Vilna was a part of Poland before the war, we were permitted to move to Poland. (Immigration from Russia was forbidden after the war and many years later). We moved to Poland in 1957 and stayed there for two years. Poland was a between post for us. It was not a place for jews after the war. In Poland we started to receive transfers of money from South-Africa and our economic situation was improved. We left Poland in 1959 and immigrated to Israel also as a result of the advice of representatives of the family in South-Africa. All the Jews left Poland at that year. Most of them to Israel and some to Australia.
Israel intended to be a passing post and we were supposed to immigrate later to the USA or somewhere else, but my parents decided to stay in Israel since they were too tired and to old to start a new life and a new language somewhere else, and here in Israel they felt safe among many Jewish survivors".