Testimony of Ada (Agranati) Bolton, born in Florence, Italy, 1928, regarding her experiences in hiding in the home of a non-Jewish family, and in a monastery in Florence

Testimony of Ada (Agranati) Bolton, born in Florence, Italy, 1928, regarding her experiences in hiding in the home of a non-Jewish family, and in a monastery in Florence Family life; her father works in an American-Italian bank; studies at a state Jewish school; good relations with non-Jewish Italians; change in their lives due to racial laws; dismissal of her father from his job at the bank; expulsion from school to a Jewish school; escape of her father to France; escape of Jewish refugees; food shortages and receiving food vouchers; removal of Mussolini from power; information regarding Rabbi Kasuto; German occupation; eviction of Jews from their homes; transfer to an Italian family; transfer to the Santa Zita monastery in Florence; visits to church; move to the house where her mother was staying; end of the war; studies in a Jewish school; aliya to Eretz Israel in 1945; return to Florence; aliya to Israel in 1948.