Zohara Zehava and Moshe Amos

Testimony of Avraham Amos, the brother:
I am Avraham Amos, the eldest of five siblings born to my parents, Zohara-Zehava and Moshe Amos.

We immigrated to Israel from Morocco in 1962 and were sent to the Givat Olga transit camp in Hadera.

In 1963 my mother gave birth to a baby in the Brandes Maternity Hospital in Hadera. My mother spent the first day after the birth with the baby, held him in her arms and everything was fine. The following day, my father went to see her at the maternity hospital, and the doctors approached him and asked him to sign a document because the baby had died. My parents were shocked, and my mother couldn't stop crying. How could he have died when on the previous day he was in her arms, in perfect health? I remember it all, I was 11 years old. They did not even get to name the baby. They were both newly arrived immigrants from Morocco, with no command of Hebrew yet, and they did not know how to conduct themselves with the hospital staff. They were not shown a body or given a death certificate. My mother was completely shattered after that.

My parents both passed away; my father in 1985 and my mother in 1994.

We, the siblings, keep talking about it among ourselves. We wonder what our brother may look like, wherever is he, wherever they have taken him. Those questions continue to trouble us.

My parents were shocked, and my mother couldn't stop crying. How could he have died when on the previous day he was in her arms, in perfect health?







My parents both passed away; my father in 1985 and my mother in 1994.

We, the siblings, keep talking about it among ourselves. We wonder what our brother may look like, wherever is he, wherever they have taken him. Those questions continue to trouble us.