Testimony of Nettie Anita (Goldman) Atzmon, born in Berlin, Germany in 1932, regarding the experiences of her family and their escape from Denmark to Sweden in a fishing boat

Testimony of Nettie Anita (Goldman) Atzmon, born in Berlin, Germany in 1932, regarding the experiences of her family and their escape from Denmark to Sweden in a fishing boat Childhood in a non-religious family; her mother is an elite seamstress; her father is an architect; separation of her parents in 1935; move to Copenhagen with her mother in 1936; help from acquaintances; extension of their Copenhagen residence permit as refugees; living with scarcity; attending a kindergarten and then attending school; her mother works secretly as a seamstress; lack of income for about six months after being informed against, until receiving a work permit; meetings with refugees from Germany; outbreak of war; food rationing; blackouts; air-raids; rumors regarding deportation in 1943; offer of help from Danish residents; escape to a hiding place in a vacation home in the forest for several days; escape to a fishing town; payment to a fisherman to sail the fishing boat towards Sweden; arrival in Malmo; transfer to interrogation and then to Stockholm; receiving help from the Swedes; attending school; work of her mother as a seamstress; end of the war; return to Copenhagen; continuing her studies; Zionist activity; aliya to Israel in 1954; absorption.