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Khava Kermish
Testimony
Testimony of Chava Kermish, born in Volyne, 1922, regarding her experiences in Volyne, Denmark and Sweden
Childhood and family background in Volyne; membership in the Blau-Weiss movement.
Change in attitude of the population after the annexation of the Sudetenland to Germany; visit of the Gestapo in the family's home; receives permission to join a student exchange between Germans and Danes; move to a farm on Staetland Island in the Kobenhavn area; daily life; meeting with Hechalutz movement in the area; keeps contact with her family until 1942; escape to Gilleleje with her future husband; smuggled to Hoganas by members of the Danish underground.
Receives a Swedish passport but without Swedish citizenship; sympathetic attitude of the local residents; aliya to Eretz Israel, May 1946; absorption.
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item Id
3564686
First Name
Chava
Khava
Last Name
Kermish
Date of Birth
1922
Place of Birth
Volyne, Czechoslovakia
Type of material
Testimony
File Number
10163
Language
Hebrew
Record Group
O.3 - Testimonies Department of the Yad Vashem Archives
Date of Creation - earliest
04/11/1996
Date of Creation - latest
04/11/1996
Name of Submitter
קרמיש חוה
Original
YES
No. of pages/frames
30
Interview Location
ISRAEL
Connected to Item
O.3 - Testimonies gathered by Yad Vashem
Form of Testimony
Video
Subjects
Dedication
Yad Vashem Document Collection, Moshal Repository