Shalom Arovo was interviewed in 1990 and tells of his life in Aden, then a British colony and his involvement with the Yemenite immigrants after the establishment of Israel. He was born in 1920 and lived in the Jewish quarter Crater, going to a Jewish school, the King George V, telling how they spoke firstly Arabic, then English and then Hebrew. His father took the family to Palestine when Shalom was about 8 years old, some of them stayed, but he returned to Aden. Shalom tells how the Jewish people in Aden had a good relationship with the Arabs until the day after the establishment of Israel, when ‘the Arabs started gathering against the Jews’.The Hatikvah Club, which Shalom had started in 1937, organised themselves to protect the Jewish community against the riots, using only their hands, bottles and stones, but shops were looted, synagogues burned and houses set on fire. With the large influx of Yemenite Jews into Aden, the British set up the Hashid Camp, but this was closed down in 1949 and the immigrants sent back to Yemen, then Shalom and others rescued many of them in ‘Operation Flying Carpet’ and sent them to Israel. All the Jewish young people left Aden for Israel in 1950s leaving only a community of 160, where Shalom married, had children, but then left for London in 1964.