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"The barking of the dogs and the smell of the electrified fence accompanied father every day" - voila! sport

2023-04-17T14:14:03.125Z


Moshe and Chaim Yehiel grew up in the home of Holocaust survivors from Thessaloniki. From the meeting with Dr. Mangala, through the wedding in Greece to accompanying the boys to a football career, Moshe remembers with the eldest sister Betty


Betty Yehiel about her parents Albert and Sharina (courtesy of the Yehiel family)

Moshe and Chaim Yehiel were two symbols of the Ramat Gan power, but behind their football careers a painful and sad story was hidden - the story of another family of Holocaust survivors, one of the Rovat species, who came to Israel from Hell.



"Our father Albert was born in Thessaloniki in 1916," says Betty Yazarski, the eldest sister of the footballers, a 76-year-old retired teacher. who he had, a handsome and handsome man who spent a lot of time. Our mother Sharina was born in Thessaloniki in 1924, lived in a respectable neighborhood of the city, the father was a butcher. The daughters of the family were sent to school, the mother had a great talent for literature, which helped her to be connected to the German language and to speak later in Auschwitz with the Germans ".

As a child he did not understand what it was about.

Moshe Yehiel (Photo: Yehchat)

How did your mother's hellish journey to the Auschwitz death camp begin?



"Mother was transported from Thessaloniki in transport number 9 to Poland to Auschwitz. It was a 7-day journey in the cattle cars. In April 1943 she passed the selection in Birkenau and found herself at the gates of Auschwitz, in block number 10 of the German death angel Josef Mengele. The number tattooed on her was 41534."



And what about Father Albert?

"Dad was also loaded onto the freight car train in 1943. It is true that there was no connection between father and mother except for the place of residence in Thessaloniki. Father has the number 118988 tattooed on his arm. Getting off the train in Birkenau, his father tearfully told his children the chilling sentence 'From now on each to himself, And God will be with us'. Father, who was a sturdy man, was sent to work in the 'Commando Corps', hard work of war aid for the Germans, while receiving beatings and constant hunger."

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Albert and Sharina Yehiel in their youth (Photo: Yehcat)

"My brother Haim and I, as children of the 1950s, did not understand the essence of the Holocaust, we did not understand exactly what we were talking about, the number "6 million" did not enter our minds," continues Moshe Yechiel, "I did not understand how they did not go crazy, because my mother, who loved sense Humor, she always used mainly in front of her friends saying 'we defeated Hitler'."



Betty adds: "I was in the third grade at the 'Bialik' school and we went on a tour organized by the neighborhood near Vashem.

I informed the teacher at school that I would not come to school due to the Holocaust-related trip to Jerusalem.

The teacher looked at me and asked what I had to do, as a family from Greece, to the Holocaust.

As a child I had to apologize, that teacher did not know then what happened to the Jews of Thessaloniki in the Holocaust.

Says that even today many teachers do not know the story of the Greek Jews."

"The teacher looked at me and asked what about me and the Holocaust."

Betty Yehiel (Photo: Yehchat)

Here Betty expands on Mengele's experiment block: "Mother was sent, as mentioned, to Block 10. She said that, except for once, she never saw him face to face. Her job and that of her friends was to get the women out after the operations of the horrific experiments. There was a Nazi professor named Klauberg and also A Jewish doctor named Samuel, who acted as if he was really participating in the infernal surgeries on the Jewish women, surgeries that you can't imagine what was there. The Germans came upon him, and simply executed him."



She tells about true friendship between the women in the block.

"It was difficult to survive there, but Bella Razon's friends who protected mother - Mrs. Keller, Luna, Sasson, Weinstein and others encouraged and gave hope in days and nights of crisis and despair."

Albert and Sharina's 18th wedding (photo: Yachats)

"Father survived the famous death march in the snow and cold, father survived Birkenau, Auschwitz, Methausen and was released from the Dachau camp," describes Moshe and Betty adds: "The hero mother survived the death march. After four months of Germany's surrender to the Allies, she arrived via Brussels to Thessaloniki. After Liberation Mother used to say about the survivors of the Holocaust, 'Their soul is scarred by hatred of man, and their hand bears a witness to the evil that was.'"



Moshe recalls: "For years, father used to say that the barking of the German SS dogs and the electrified wire fences and the smell of death accompany him every day."

Betty: "Father and mother met in Thessaloniki, which was not like the city from which they were put on the death trains. The Haganah members from Eretz Yisrael were in Greece, and two of them, Yoel Arnon and Sharik, organized a wedding for 18 couples from Thessaloniki together, in a place called 'Mitanov Laviyonim.'

Moshe continues the story: "A short time later, the parents boarded the Habiva Raik ship (a paratrooper from Eretz Israel who was executed by the Germans, named after Kibbutz Lehavot Habiva - AG). The parents were sent to the Atlit Detention Center from there to the Florentine neighborhood in southern Tel Spring".

They accompanied their children to the fields.

Albert and Sharina Yehiel (Photo: Yehcat)

The mother passed away 10 years ago, the father a little before her.

"They were lovers of the State of Israel and had the privilege of seeing the family with their precious grandchildren and great-grandchildren," says Moshe, "Father, who had a heart disease, saw me and my brother Haim playing in our youth. As adults, he listened to the radio broadcasts on Shirim and Sha'ir. Mother would come to all the home games of The power and Bnei Yehuda in the field in Gali Gil."



Here he takes the time to talk a little about his career: "Haim and I grew up in the youth team of Gdanah Tel Aviv, I was bought by Hachach for 5,000 liras, because my father wouldn't allow me to get a scooter and a sofa. Chaim and I played for years with Hachach Ramat Gan, we won In championships and cups, I also won the state cup with Bnei Yehuda, my grandson Uri is an outstanding player in the GNA Tel Aviv, a talent that spends my Saturdays.

I wish he would continue my football career, that of Haim and his son Avi Yehiel.

But that's for another story."

Albert and Sharina Yehiel.

From the family album (photo: Yachats)

The mother passed away 10 years ago, the father a little before her.

"They were lovers of the State of Israel and had the privilege of seeing the family with their precious grandchildren and great-grandchildren," says Moshe, "Father, who had a heart disease, saw me and my brother Haim playing in our youth. As adults, he listened to the radio broadcasts on Shirim and Sha'ir. Mother would come to all the home games of The power and Bnei Yehuda in the field in Gali Gil."

Moshe Yehiel in his days as an actor (Photo: Maariv, Reuven Castro)

Here he takes the time to talk a little about his career: "Haim and I grew up in the youth team of Gdanah Tel Aviv, I was bought by Hachach for 5,000 liras, because my father wouldn't allow me to get a scooter and a sofa. Chaim and I played for years with Hachach Ramat Gan, we won In championships and cups, I also won the state cup with Bnei Yehuda, my grandson Uri is an outstanding player in the GNA Tel Aviv, a talent that spends my Saturdays.

I wish he would continue my football career, that of Haim and his son Avi Yehiel.

But that's for another story."

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Source: walla

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