Testimony of Chawa (Benet) Nehorai, born in Zawircie, 1929, regarding her experiences in Oswiecim, Sosnowiec Ghetto and aliya to Eretz Israel
Testimony of Chawa (Benet) Nehorai, born in Zawircie, 1929, regarding her experiences in Oswiecim, Sosnowiec Ghetto and aliya to Eretz Israel
Testimony
Testimony of Chawa (Benet) Nehorai, born in Zawircie, 1929, regarding her experiences in Oswiecim, Sosnowiec Ghetto and aliya to Eretz Israel
Her childhood in Oswiecim; her parents' aliya to Eretz Israel, 1936.
Outbreak of the war and implementation of decrees; forced labor, 1940; deportation to the Sosnowiec Ghetto; life and conditions in the ghetto; mutual aid, trade; hangings; observing the Shabbat in secret; Moniek Merin, head of the Judenrat; labor in the Hans Kremstein factory; aliya to Eretz Israel in the framework of the exchange deal between Templers and Jews having visas to Mandatory Palestine; receiving details from rabbis about the hiding place of the Belzer Rebbe shortly before the exchange deal; travel by train via Austria, Hungary and Bulgaria.
Train crash in Syria, resulting in the death of 200 people; emotional reunion with her parents; difficult adjustment; meeting with the "Teheran children"; meeting with people who wanted to know the fate of their relatives in Sosnowiec; transmitting information about the Belzer Rebbe to Rabbi Herzog; religious coping; life in Moshav Hemed.
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First Name
Chawa
Khava
Last Name
Nahorai
Nehorai
Maiden Name
Banet
Bant
Benet
Date of Birth
09/07/1929
Place of Birth
Zawiercie, Poland
Type of material
Testimony
File Number
10895
Language
Hebrew
Record Group
O.3 - Testimonies Department of the Yad Vashem Archives