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Testimony of Alexander Wolfson, born in Copenhagen, Denmark in 1936, regarding his escape to Sweden as a child in October 1943

Testimony
Testimony of Alexander Wolfson, born in Copenhagen, Denmark in 1936, regarding his escape to Sweden as a child in October 1943 Family background before the war; German occupation in April 1940; dismissal of his father; operation to save the Danish Jews in October 1943; escape to Sweden in a fishing boat; capture of his father and his grandmother during the escape and their deportation to Theresienstadt; life in the Stockholm area; antisemitic acts; the end of the war in May 1945; life after the war; aliya to Israel in 1950; absorption.
item Id
11875365
First Name
Aleksander
Last Name
Vulfson
Date of Birth
1936
Place of Birth
Kobenhavn, Denmark
Type of material
Testimony
Language
Hebrew
Record Group
O.3 - Testimonies Department of the Yad Vashem Archives
Date of Creation - earliest
19/11/2015
Date of Creation - latest
19/11/2015
Name of Submitter
וולפסון אלכסנדר
Original
YES
Interview Location
ISRAEL
Form of Testimony
Video