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Testimony of Eve Chava (Blok) Levi, born in Strasbourg, France, in 1921, about her wartime experiences

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Testimony of Eve Chava (Blok) Levi, born in Strasbourg, France, in 1921, about her wartime experiences Pre-war family background: father—mathematics teacher and a Zionist; good relations with non-Jewish neighbors; war erupts in 1940; townspeople evacuated; witness moves to Bordeaux; attends an agricultural high school in Bretagne; first-born brother deported to Auschwitz and murdered; parents sent to Drancy due to denunciation and thence to Auschwitz and are murdered; witness escapes to Moissac under a false identity ni 1942; engages in random farm labor and childcare; war ends; witness and brother return to Bordeaux; house ransacked; witness reaches Paris in 1948; reestablishes life; immigrates to Israel in 1981; adjusts to life in Israel.
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12518097
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Chava
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Levi
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Blok
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1921
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Strasbourg, France
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Testimony
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Hebrew
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O.3 - Testimonies Department of the Yad Vashem Archives
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לוי בלוק איב חוה
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YES
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ISRAEL
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O.3 - Testimonies gathered by Yad Vashem
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