Tag #122168 - Interview #78245 (Cadik Danon)

I remember, I was still quite young and we were still living in Sarajevo,
celebrating one Pesach, the holiday that recalls the Jews' salvation from
slavery in Egypt. All the traditions connected to that holiday relate to
fleeing from slavery and the Jews' 40-year stay in the Sinai desert. I
remember my father put a piece of matzah in a big cloth napkin and he put
it on my back, as a symbol of how the Jews quickly baked their bread so
that they could get on the road to the Red Sea and Sinai during the night.

While living in Sarajevo, until 1934, we were members of the Hashomer
Hatzair Zionist society, known as Ken. The organization's goal was to once
again create Eretz Israel, based on socialist principles, and we prepared
ourselves to go to Palestine, which was part of the British Empire. There
we intended to work on kibbutzim. When we moved to Belgrade in 1934 we
enrolled in the local Hashomer Hatzair. We socialized mainly with Jews.
There were many friends; unfortunately all are dead and I will not mention
them because it would make me cry.