Sr. Regine Canetti NDS and her family had to leave Bulgaria by boat under the threat of Nazism. The boat carried more than 350 Bulgarian refugees in the hopes of reaching Israel having escaped from their country. The boat was called ‘El Salvador’ meaning in Ladino “The Savior.” Our Sister Regina was on this boat with her family. She was nineteen years old. On December 3rd, 1940 after a nerve-racking month of waiting, they finally got onto the deck of the Salvador convinced that they would reach their destination, but the condition on the ship was terrible and overcrowded. They arrived in Istanbul, but on the evening of December 11th the authorities expelled them and the boat was dragged out of the port to a distance of three kilometers offshore and left there. They sailed for long hours on the Marmara Sea not far from the coast. Then a very bad and sudden storm developed with strong winds, rain and snow. They were at a distance of about 100 meters from the coast facing a …