Film Collection
Excerpts from an interview with Sarah yareach
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My mother she lived in Cracow. Her name was Maria and here she was called Miriam in hebrew. Her first husband, my biologic father died in [concentration camp] Mauthausen. In 1941 I was born. I think I was two years old. The Bachul family lived far from Cracow in a small place with five or six children. My mother knew some of the Bachul family. I don’t know how but she knew them before. Maria was pregnant. I think they said that I was a girl that she brought to [life]. I had a picture with Maria, I was on her hand. Lala! My name was Lala, is Lala until now. All the relatives call me Lala, Laluńka, Lalunia. I think I was one of them. Yes. I was praying the prays of the Christians. They told me that once someone came to their family and I said: “Ja nie jestem Żydówka” (“I am not Jewish”). When my mother came to take me back after the war I didn’t want to go with her, I wanted to stay with the Bachul family. I didn’t understand – suddenly I had another mother. I was used to their family and when she came I didn’t want to go with her but she took some sweets and gave me and because of this sweets I went with her. It was 1949 when we came to Hajfa. I remember that we came with boat, with a ship. A lot of people and everyone on the ship who could do something to help the living on the boat, made something. I remember that I was big enough to peel potatoes. I wanted to visit Poland, to visit a place where I was born and where I was in their family, with the Bachuls, so I had an address in Bystra. My mother she wrote to them from time to time and they wrote to my mother also. So when I came and knocked on the door the lady opened. I had a letter they sent my mother ten years after my mother came to Israel, or five years, I don’t know. And I showed them the letter and I said: “I’m Lala, you see the letter? I came to visit you”. And so she looked at me and said “O Mama Boska, Matko Boska” (Oh, Our Lady, Our Lady”) and she began praying. It was very exciting. I am glad that I stayed of life, that I have a family, I have a husband and two children. I think they suffered from somewhere because I was from there. You know, I have a lot of fright and fears. I have a lot of complications to be a mother from this time.