Tag #108799 - Interview #78427 (Janina Wiener)

My parents never thought of emigrating from Poland, they never had such plans. But in 1935 or 1936 my mother’s younger brother, Maurycy, left. I think there was supposed to be a Maccabiada [now called the Maccabiah Games, an Olympic-style event first held in 1932 in Palestine] and he left Lwow with the Maccabi [13] team and then got through to Palestine. He returned two years later. Why? Well, he obviously didn’t like it.