Lea Vakholder

Testimony of Lea Louise Wachholder, born in 1933 in Paris, about her experiences as a girl in Paris and under a false identity in the Sarthe area Life before the war; daughter of Communist parents; father: carpenter with his own workshop; war breaks out; witness deported with mother and brother to "winter" stadium in Paris on July 16, 1942; eighteen-year-old sister remains behind in family home; father escapes; witness hospitalized and undergoes appendectomy; mother and brother deported to Auschwitz and murdered there; witness taken to the Sarthe area with help of forged documents; life there as a non-Jew; works as a cowgirl; older sister escapes to the Alps; war ends; back to Paris; life with sister and father; immigration to Israel in 1954; adjustment to life in Israel.