Hawa Alberstein, Voice of Israel All of her family, who remained in Poland, died. They were killed, strangled by gas, disappeared without a trace. Her parents were saved, managed to flee from Poland to the USSR, found themselves in Kazakhstan. After the war, the parents returned to Poland, and there she was born - the girl Eve, later, in Israel, who took the name of Hava. Father, a music teacher, taught her to play on the accordion, but she did not want to know anything but a guitar.