Nili Madlen Pauker

Testimony of Nili (Farkhi) Pauker, born in Sofia, Bulgaria, 1932, regarding her experiences as a child in Sofia and Razgrad Life before the war; from a well-to-do, traditional, Zionist family; attendance at a private girls' school; receiving information regarding the plight of the Jews in Europe; Start of anti-Jewish legislation; imposition of limitations on the Jews; Aryanization of her grandfather's business; robbery and torture of grandfather; the Jews living in fear; transfer of the men to forced labor, 1941; physical abuse; deportation to Razgrad; the extended family's life in one room in Razgrad; mutual help; joint purchasing of food once a week and cooking for the entire community; rumors of deportation of Jews "toward the east"; smuggling of the children into the hills; liberation by the Red Army; Return to Sofia; life in Sofia; robbery of their property; Hechalutz Hazair activities; aliya to Israel, 1948; absorption.