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fered most from the camp toilets
and lack of bathing facilities. "I
don't want to remember how
awful it was to use those bat-
hrooms," she says with a shud-
der. There were masses of flies
and a constant stench. The girls
could wash themselves only in-
side their tents, heating up
water on the petilya.
There were other difficulties.
During the very harsh winter of
1951-52 the rains hardly stop-
ped and the camps were mired
in mud. During some particu-
larly strong storms, a few of the
tents collapsed and the roofs of
some tin huts blew off in the
wind. Other families good-
naturedly took in the newly
homeless victims.
The population at the ma'ab-
which hailed from many
countries of the world, got along
amazingly well. University stu-
dents voluntarily taught He-
brew two hours a day, and soon 4--
Romanian immigrants were ex-
changing a few sentences with
their neighors from Yemen,
while North African immigrants
were showing Polish immigrants
how they prepared fish patties.
"There was a common joy and
everyone felt like one family,"
says Devorah. "Every Shabbat,
we'd sit together and sing folk
songs or tell stories. There was
no stealing, no crime. The beau-
tiful fact of simply being in
Eretz Yisrael was enough."
Devorah's family eventually
moved to Holon and then to
Jerusalem. They rented an
abandoned garage and turned it
into a livable two-room apart-
ment — "a veritable palace,"
says Devorah. "We were very
happy."
Another tale of success is told
by Amos Bracha, the, Southern
District director for the Ministry
of Welfare. Amos came to Israel
from Tripoli in 1949 as a teen-
ager with a group organized by
the religious-Zionist youth
movement B'nei Akiva.
Amos also recalls the almost
mystical fervor with which the
ma'abarot residents met day-to-
day problems: they were simply
grateful to be on holy soil again
after 2,000 years of exile, no
matter what the physical hard-
ships.
And there were hardships.
the
Amos recalls how
snowstorms that winter caused
all the tents to collapse. People
picked themselves up and moved
over to the old British Army
barracks which served as com-
munal kitchens.
He worked at clearing fields,
then in plowing and other ag-
ricultural pursuits. Occasion-
ally, he also worked in road
building and in renovating the
old Arab house in which they
lived.
Amos, who had a natural gift
for teaching, was asked to be-
come a school teacher, but he
preferred to "build the land."
After much pressure, however,
he agreed,and became "a roving
educator on a donkey."
He taught two days a week in
Moshav Alma, two days a week
in Dalton and two days at home,
ara,