Eva Turner

“It was shock. Back in 1968 when I was here, I worked in a chocolate factory, a coffee shop, I worked here and there. Then three months of hitchhiking. Then I left for Oxford where I worked at the dorms, handing out food to students and I didn’t really have any idea what I would do and I didn’t care. But in 1978 I did care because suddenly I was thirty and I needed to somehow organize my life. I was unhappily almost divorced and separated from my husband, with whom I hoped I would stay together. It was very dramatic. I had to find myself and, most importantly, I had to start taking care of myself on my own for the very first time.”

“They left in 1939, that is the families sent their kids to this organization that coordinated transports to Palestine with fake visas to Shanghai. It was very dramatic, they sailed the Danube river. First they went to Bratislava, but they had closed it there, so they sailed the Danube to Sulina which is a port in Romania by the Black Sea and there they embarked on a coal cargo ship under a Turkish flag, there was absolutely nothing there, a steel construction and layers and layers of coal dust, they had to adapt somehow. They left and subsequently got to Haifa where they got locked up by the British; my mother went to Atlit, which was a refugee camp, and my father was sent to a different camp.”