Testimony of Esther Edith (Kunsch) Bider, born in Hamburg, Germany, 1920, regarding her experiences in Germany and as a refugee in Denmark and Sweden

Testimony of Esther Edith (Kunsch) Bider, born in Hamburg, Germany, 1920, regarding her experiences in Germany and as a refugee in Denmark and Sweden Her family background; activities in Bnei Akiva; dismissal of her father from his work, 1935; witness joins aliya training in Steckelsdorf, 1937; detention of her father and his imprisonment in Dachau; Kristallnacht, 10 November 1938; witness' return to Hamburg; studies with Rabbi Doctor Joseph Carlebach; release of her father; receives a visa for Denmark, spring 1939; joins Hapoel Mizrachi aliya training in Smidstrup; good attitude by the farmers; escape of her parents to Shanghai. German occupation, spring 1940; yellow badge; cancellation of the order to wear the yellow badge; move to Copenhagen; work in Jewish homes; in hiding in a village, autumn 1943; smuggled to Sweden, October 1943; aliya training in Norrkoeping; marriage in Stockholm; work in the care of a group of female survivors of concentration camps, 1944-1945. Aliya to Eretz Israel, 1946.