Misha Fendle Pendle


MAIL: mailto: lahav333@nana10.co.il , eyal.snappir@gmail.com
Survivor: Code: RelatioNet MI PE 22 LU UK
Family Name: Pendle
Previous Family Name: Fendle
First Name: Misha
Father Name: Israel
Mother Name: Tsipora
Sister Name: Pessia
Date of birth: 1922

Country ofbirth: Ukraine

City of Birth: Lutsk


Interview with Misha

Before the War

Misha was born in city in Poland, called "Lutsk".

Before the war Misha lived in Lutsk, with his family:

·        Isreal – his father

·        Tsipora – his mother

·        Pessia – his sister

During the War

In 1939, when the World War‖II  began his family was sent to the ghetto in Lodge. Misha knew that in the beginning of World War II, his whole family was already murded. He felt that he had to survive so that he would be able to tell his story. Misha stayed in Lutsk when the Red Army arrived.

In 1939, The Red Army conquered Lutsk and annexed it to the territory of "The Soviet Union". Misha joined  the Soviets who helped him, gave him money, and let him study in a Soviet school. In 1941, the Germen army bombed Lutsk. As a result, the Soviets and Misha with them moved from town to town, until they arrived to Lublin.

When Misha was in Lublin he tried to find relatives by a newspaper which aided to this goal. Misha tried to send information and details about his family, but it took too much time, so Misha gave up.

Misha stayed in Lublin for half a year, then the German army started to bomb Lublin. Misha understood that he must move to a safety place. The organization "joint" (an organization which helped Jews in the war) helped Misha to arrive to a safety place.
Misha moved to Germany and he was in a place which was under the American control.

After the War

After the end of the war Misha arrived to Marci (France) with the American army. There Misha  with many Jews painted a ship in order to make it look like the Turkish flag. By this act they wanted to seem as a Turkish ship and not take chances to be caught by the British army. They started to sail to Israel. A few kilometers from Israel they met a British ship and they told them that they were sailing to Port-Sahid in Egypt, and they let them continue.

In Israel they were welcomed by the locals. The locals brought them food and warm clothes. The Jews were scattered in a lot of Kibbutzs around Israel, but every Saturday they came back to the same harbor, and got new clothes.

At the beginning Misha was in "En Shemer", and then he moved to "Lehavot Haviva"' and finally he stayed in "Shahar Hagolan".

Today

Nowadays Misha lives in "Bayit-Bakfar" in kfar-Save (nursing home). There Misha takes part in art classes, and frames his paintings for his exhibitions. Misha has a large family (children and grandchildren).
They come to visit him in "Bayit-Bakfar", and they take care of him.

Lutsk

The city Lutsk is situated in Ukraine on the west side of the capital city Kiev. Since the 14^th century there was a big community of Jews.

The first known documental reference is from the year 1085. Until the 16^th
century princes controlled the city. In 1569 the city was under control of Poland.

The city continued to develop and turned into a modern city until the beginning of World War I, when the city was occupied by different countries. Finally, after Germany's invasion, the city was under control of Ukraine. Until May 16^th,1919 the number of the Jews was 17500.

At the beginning of the World War II, in 1939, the city was occupied by the Soviet Union. After two years the city was occupied by Germany and a lot of Jews were deported to the ghetto. However the majority of them was murdered.

A little bit before the Germany's invasion in June 25^th, 1941, a lot of young people who were in the city, succeeded in escaping. Some of them went to the forests to join the Partisans and got murdered. The majority of people that were send to Belzec, a death. 500 Partisans tried to rebel, but they were unsuccessful.

Today there are 210,700 people who live in Lutsk and 80,000 of them are Jews. Most of the Jews in Lutsk are elderly.