My name is Zippora Kebats, I was born in Persia, immigrated to Israel at the age of seven along with my parents, the late Aharon and Theos Atari, and my siblings -a sister and a brother.

We arrived in the Caesarea transit camp in 1951. There was no water, no gas, no petrol - there was nothing. My parents were dropped off the road in a field, where there was only heaven and earth. We were given a piece of fabric to make a tent and that's it. This was where te town Or Akiva is today.

In 1952, we were already in the barracks; my mother gave birth to twins at Brandeis Hospital in Hadera. After that, she was pregnant again and gave birth to a daughter named Rivka in 1953, again at Brandeis Hospital in Hadera.

Mother returned home with the girl. When the girl was almost a year old in 1954, my mother was told that they would help her and take the girl to a nursery. There was an employee of the Relief Bureau who came to help, or a nurse from “Tipat Halav”; I'm not sure which of them came, but Rebecca wasn't sick or anything. Maybe they wanted to help or make it easier or something, but they took the girl.

We used to go visit her every week. It was a place; the Babies Home in Brandeis, that's what they called it. Thursday night they called through the telegraph and informed us that she was sick and was transferred to Rambam Hospital, in Haifa. On Friday morning another telegraph came: "the girl has died". They didn't give us a body. They took ten Lira from my father for burial and we saw nothing: no grave, no certificate, nothing.

Where is her body? I want to go to my sister's grave. Where is it? Why did they lie to us like that? Why did they tell everyone these lies?

Mother – due to all the sorrow, crying and pain in 1958 - never conceived again. She fell ill, could not function and passed away. She was only 36 years old. I was the eldest sister. We were left without a mother, and also without a sister.

I lost a sister seven years ago and I don't have another sister. I wish for a miracle that would enable me see her. My late parents didn't get to see her, maybe I shall.

Zippora Kebats ni Attari.