One third of the liberated survivors chose to emigrate to countries other than Israel. They moved, by and large, to the United States, Canada and other Western countries. Testimony 12
Ken Hamer was born in 1937, in Lodz, Poland. Ken and most of his family spent the war hiding in the forest. Ken recalls his experiences after the war's end:
"We were in Paris for some months and we couldn't be taken to Israel because they weren't taking children under a certain age […] I think under twelve or whatever it was […] and hence, we had an uncle in Australia, an uncle and a cousin in Australia, and we had passports to Australia, so we went to Australia."
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Riva Binder was born in 1925 in Poland. During the war she moved to Warsaw and then to Vilna, and was deported to the Stutthof and Landsberg camps. She was liberated by the Americans. She recalls her post-war experiences:
"After a stay in Rome of two-and-a-half years we found the opportunity to shake off the identity as displaced persons. We tried to leave for Israel, always my dreamland, but the British in occupation there would not allow us entry. When my husband's relatives in South Africa sent us immigration papers for entry there we applied for permission and eventually, at the end of 1948, were allowed to immigrate there. So we arrived in Johannesburg."
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