My name is Sarah Eden, was born in Khawlan near Sana’a, Yemen. We reached the Camp Hashed in 1949, myself and my husband and my parents, the whole family. I was already married and pregnant then.

We arrived in Israel on 16.10.1949 to Lod and from there we were transferred to a transit camp in Ein Shemer, where I gave birth to my oldest daughter in February 1950.

After I has the healthy birth, I was told to take the child to the old maternity hospital in Hadera so that I would later get food stamps for the baby. The girl was healthy and we returned home to Ein Shemer. In Ein Shemer I did as I was told and the child remained in the nursery, I would breastfeed her every three or four hours and she was fine. Completely healthy. One day I came and they told me that they took her to the hospital because she didn’t feel well, they took her to Pardes Hanna. Already the next day they told me she was dead. Without an explanation, without a death certificate without anything. To this day I don’t trust doctors and don’t trust caretakers or nurses. I preferred not to send the children to kindergarten but to raise them at home.

Sarah Eden

I was with my parents in the Kedmi Committee, we testified at Beit Agron (Jerusalem). I will not forget their derogatory attitude, like a routine that they don’t even want to listen at all, disgraceful conduct. After that we got a fake death certificate without any identifying details, even the date didn’t make sense. The death was recorded as happening before the girl was even born.

Rahamim Eden

The family’s website (Hebrew) http://www.edenfamily.co.il/