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Testimony of Hanne Frenk (Samuel), born in Oberlauringen, Germany, in 1931, regarding her experiences in Oberlauringen, Hamburg, Oslo and Stockholm.

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Testimony of Hanne Frenk (Samuel),born in Oberlauringen,Germany,in 1931, regarding her experiences in Oberlauringen,Hamburg,Oslo and Stockholm. Daughter of religious family of rabbis from Oberlauringen, father is a cantor at the synagogue adjacent to their home; community life; attending local school; studies'interruption due to antisemitic events; father's deportation to Dachau; escape with mother to aunt in outskirts of city; "Kristallnacht" events; living in hiding; escape back home; father gets papers for emigration to Norway from mother's brother Julius Samuels, Norway's chief rabbi; escape from home,1938; journey to Norway via Hamburg; closing of borders for Jews; father's ministry as rabbi of small synagogue in Oslo; German occupation; interruption of studies at school; school's transformation into German headquarters; escape to Jewish home; father's finding hideout in hospital with help og Norvegian underground; finding hideout with mother and brother with help of underground; escape to protected house of the woman peasant Sletten Ingebjorg (later recognised as "Righteous among the nations"); escape to Sweden through forests; escape to the free Stockolm; smuggling of father to Sweden with help of underground; reunion with father; rehabilitation of life; going back to school; meeting with Jewish refugees from Denmark; end of war; emigration to the USA,1949.