At the beginning of WWII, Dr. Siperstein’s family: Zaharia (deceased 1980),
his wife Amalia (deceased 1996) and their daughter Susanne  lived in
Bucharest, Rumania. Zaharia’s family who lived in Tchernowitz  thought
that it would be better for all of them to stay together  during these difficult
times so Dr. Siperstein took his family and  went to his relatives.

The town of Tchernowitz is on the frontier between Poland, Ukraine and
Rumania and it changed hands so that when the Rumanians and the 
Germans entered the town, the Sipersteins were sent to Transnistria,
Cariera de Piatra.

Because of his profession, Dr .Siperstein was sent from one concentration camp
to the other over the river Bug in Ukraine among  these Ivangorod, Michailovka,
Oradovka and on their way back from the  camps they passed Petchiora and the
ghetto of Tulchin. These  wanderings helped them in a way to save their lives.

In the ghetto of Tulchin a group of orphans was organized to be sent to Palestine.
Susanne joined the group but on the way to the port of Constanza, a friend of the
family kidnapped her from the train in  order to send her to her relatives. This
saved her life because the  ship going to Palestine was sunk.
 
Susanne was sick and stayed with the person who kidnapped her in Iasi, Rumania
till a lawyer, paid by the relatives, fetched her and brought  her to Tchernowitz
where she found her father and after a while her  mother came from the Ukraine.

In 1945 they traveled to Bucharest. In  1950 Susanne’s brother Dan Ben–Zion
was born. He was called after his  mother’s father who was killed together with
his wife Chaia in Riga. The family was allowed to go to Israel only in 1958.

Susanne studied English Literature and Linguistics in Jerusalem where  she met
Haim Raweh (+ 1997) they married and they had two children,  Dafna and Yoav. 
After she had the second child, Dafna asked granny Susanne to write  her story
for her children so that it should not be lost.

Granny Susanne wrote it in verse in a language at the level of children to
understand and Dafna illustrated it with love.

That was how this book was born.