On 1949 my grandmother and grandmother immigrated from Turkey and were referred to the Benyamina camp. The family had two children, four-year-old Itzhak (my father) and a two-year-old girl, Kadin, who was fair skinned with brown hair and apparently light-colored eyes. Attached a photo from the time they were still in Turkey. Itzhak and Kadin were both ill. Itzhak was looked after at the clinic, and Kadin was referred to Hae'mek Hospital in Afula, to the Children Ward. After a few days (I do not have details about the exact number of days). My grandmother was with the girl in the ward, and played with her in the corridor. The girl was animated, and my grandmother was sent home to get some clothes and get the girl discharged the next day. The next day, my grandmother came to pick her up, and was told that the girl had died. There was no death certificate and no doctor. Without a sign, without a clue. She just disappeared. Ever since then, my grandmother remained alive, but broken. She died from a heart issue at the age of 70 and a bit. Every time she remembered her, or when somebody asked about her, she would get depressed.

Recently, I've been feeling that I must find out what happened. Even if she died, to find out where was she buried. I have sent a request to the Home Office and after a few questions we realized there is no report or update regarding a death. Only a 'is no longer a resident' note from July 1963. Last address – Kfar Ma'as.

We are looking for a woman who should, in 2021, be about 73, with probably light colored eyes and brown hair. I have her ID card, if anybody wants it. The number ends in 895 and the 'control number' is 4.

My aunt is alive. She didn't die. She was taken away from my grandmother. We are trying very hard to find her, to get closure. We want to keep investigating with the Home Office but we worry we might get hostile responses. My father visited the Home Office, we tried to get at it from a different angle – a wish to find out whether there other heirs. He was told there were no further details and that he would need an inheritance order to receive more details. We are asking for help. The girl from the Ministry of the Interior said we can try and get a court order to see whether there were entries and exits from the country. My grandmother always believed she was still alive but she also refused to believe Jews would do this to fellow Jews.

The testimony of the niece Mira:

All the years we've heard that our father had two sisters. One died in Turkey and one fell ill at the same time as our father and was hospitalized in Ha'emek hospital in Afula. Our grandmother had to leave the hospital because dad was not feeling well either. When she came back she was told the baby girl died, without showing her a body nor a grave. She was simply sent home. Grandmother said earlier she played with the girl, who was feeling well.

We did not investigate too much, but when we have heard about the affair of the children of Yemen something started bothering us. In our case, too, there was no grave, no documents, nothing. They were new immigrants, they did not demand answers. They completely believed in the system. If they were brought to the land of Israel, why would they be wronged? Our parents were innocent and they were used that way. But we started asking questions, instead of our parents. We want information. We need to say 'Kaddish'.

We started searching. I turned to Ha'emek Hospital, I tried a few times. They said only through fax. Someone who worked there tried to help me, to no avail. My father was at the Home Office in Netanya. We were told she ceased to be a resident in 1963. Father's name: Nissim. That's my grandfather's name, may his memory be a blessing.

We turned for help to someone who is savvy in that field, and he got us a document with a doctor's diagnosis of tuberculosis, [saying that] she died and was buried after three days. But we turned to Chevra Kadisha (the burial services; DB) and there is no grave in her name, nothing, not in Benyamina not in Afula. At the Ministry of the Interior they said that for more details we should file a request to court and get an order that would allow us to receive additional information about the ID card we asked for – for example, entries and exits from the country.

Before I was born my father promised my grandmother to have daughters. My sister and I are the living vow of my father to my grandmother. I feel bound by my father's promise to my grandmother. I must resolve this injustice.