C was 38 when she was taken to a hotel in Turkey from her village in Moldova. She was kept under constant supervision and tricked into surgery to remove her kidney. She took home $2,500 for her organ. The recipient was an 80-year-old man from Israel.
We were always in hiding. It was obvious that the people we were involved with were like bandits. I wanted to escape, but I did not know the language, I did not even know where I was. There was a young man from our village who changed his mind and he managed to escape with some Romanians. They were young, they were part of a group. I was older, a woman, and alone. I began to weep, but what was the use? My passport was in their hands, and all I knew was that on the hotel key it was written ‘Hotel Ali Baba’.
