Historical Background and Interviews
III. A New Beginning A New Beginning
there was no objection...and few arguments were held regarding the first place to settle them.... Shoshana Goldman, who worked in the kibbutz as a youth leader, was nominated as instructor. “In excitement, the public waited the next day for the arrival of the children. In the dining room, the tables were set to celebrate the event. The members’ patience was stretched, since they were told the children would arrive by noon, but only at 4:30 pm did they arrive from Atlit. While they were dining, a crowd of members and children surrounded the newcomers. In the evening, a recep- tion was conducted on the lawn, with songs and plays with our children, and after dinner our children still sat with them to sing together. “The group consists of thirty-two children (eight of them arrived only yesterday): eighteen boys and fourteen girls. Their age range is fourteen to fifteen, but four of them are eleven. The origin of all of them is Poland. Their house mother is Shindel Globerman. “Let us pray that we will succeed in erasing from their hearts the disasters they have already seen in their short and hard lives and to educate them to be beneficial links in the project of building the nation and its land. Let us pray that soon we will receive many more like them. Thus, let us bless them....” Fifteen-year-old Moshe Trosman, who had not gotten legal pa- pers to enter Palestine, was detained as an illegal refugee on Cy- prus. There were two sections there, he said, each with hundreds of refugees crowded into rudimentary tin huts. After learning that his brother, a Haganah commander, and sister-in-law were in the other section, he arranged for friends to stuff his bed in the morning and eat his rations, and he sneaked into his brother’s camp. Later, his sister-in-law made a jute bag large enough for him to climb into, and practiced carrying it in a way that would not arouse suspicion. Trosman was small for his age, due to years of near starvation, so he climbed into the sack, and the three escaped by boat to Pales- tine. At Atlit, he asked to be reunited with the Dror group. “It was a big warm meeting with Aharon,” remembered Trosman. “We had been really good friends from the moment we met each other.”
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