Grandma, Sgula of the Berezovsky family (later Livni) Klempner, was born in Rishon LeZion in 1916 and Grandpa Levi (Lufka) Klempner emigrated from Poland in 1929 as a teenager. They were married in Israel and lived in Hadar Ramatayim (today Hod HaSharon). In 1943, their son Yigal was born. On August 25, 1944, Yigal had high fever, and my grandfather took him to Beilinson Hospital. They told him to leave the baby there. The next morning when he came in to check on him, they told him the child had died and had already been sent for burial. They didn’t see the body or receive a death certificate, but they believed the hospital (“why would they lie to them?..”). We don’t have any official documents in our possession, but when I started looking for his place of burial I was told that he was buried at Nahalat Yitzhak. Each time I came to ask for the exact spot, wanting to erect a gravestone, I was directed to a different place in the children’s plot.

I don’t know if this is enough evidence in order to accept his death or not, because the more I read the testimonials of the kidnapped Yemenite children, there’s too much resemblance. Grandma didn’t keep his birth documents because it hurt her too much. No official appeal to the committees was made because "these things happened to Yemenites, not to Ashkenazim."