At the beginning of 1953, a baby, his parents' first, was born in "Imahut" Maternity Hospital in Haifa. They did not get to take their baby home; they were told he died during childbirth. They neither saw his body nor were they given the location their child's burial place. Denying parents the right to see the body or know where their child is buried? Today this sounds crazy but in the 1950s people did not argue with the medical establishment. This baby is my uncle, born to immigrant parents from South Africa, founders of Moshav Habonim.

The baby's mother, my grandmother, remembered holding in her arms a 'healthy and beautiful baby'. Till her last day she lived with a gnawing feeling that the baby did not die and that something here stinks. We decided to search for this lost brother. Chances are he is living in Israel, 61 years old, and has no idea that his brothers and other relatives live not too far away.

Attached here are pictures of his two brothers and his sister taken in different periods. Please take a good look to see if they remind you of someone. Help us find the lost brother.

Uriya Osin