Nela Veis

Testimony of Nela Veis, born in Italy, regarding her experiences in Ferrara, in hiding in Italy, and in Israel Hiding with the father in a family of Italian acquaintances in Ferrara; arrest of the brother along with other Jews and anti-fascists; imprisonment of the brother; gathering some of the detainees in the town square and murdering them; bombing of the prison by the Allies after two months; order for the brother to report regularly to the police; arrival of the brother with the mother and the grandmother to the place of hiding in an Italian family, and family reunification; bombings; wandering; various hiding places; end of the war; studies in an Italian elementary school for Jewish students and in an Italian high school; training; aliya to Israel, 1951; life on Kibbutz Yad Hanna.