Testimony of Alice (Farber) Liberman, born in Amsterdam, the Netherlands, 1934, regarding her experiences in hiding in a village using a false identity, an orphanage in Westerbork, Theresienstadt, Bergen-Belsen and Auschwitz
Testimony of Alice (Farber) Liberman, born in Amsterdam, the Netherlands, 1934, regarding her experiences in hiding in a village using a false identity, an orphanage in Westerbork, Theresienstadt, Bergen-Belsen and Auschwitz
Testimony
Testimony of Alice (Farber) Liberman, born in Amsterdam, the Netherlands, 1934, regarding her experiences in hiding in a village using a false identity, an orphanage in Westerbork, Theresienstadt, Bergen-Belsen and Auschwitz
Her parents' escape from Nazi Germany to the Netherlands.
German occupation, May 1940; restrictions on the Jews including yellow badge; life in hiding in an attic; informed on; contact with the Dutch underground; hidden by a woman in a village while using a false identity; learns Christian customs while in hiding; informed on and detention in prison; deportation to Westerbork by train; obtains forged documents with help from her brother; life in the orphanage in the camp; liquidation of the orphanage and transfer to Bergen-Belsen; camp life including typhus and hospitalization; transfer to Theresienstadt; preparations for a visit from the Red Cross to the ghetto; transfer of children to Auschwitz; liberation by the Red Army.
Move to DP camps in Czechoslovakia and the Netherlands; information regarding her parents' hiding place in the Netherlands with help from the Dutch underground; her parents' rescuers are recognized as Righteous Among the Nations; aliya to Israel, 1954.
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5765472
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Alice
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Liberman
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Farber
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18/07/1934
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Amsterdam, The Netherlands
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Testimony
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13006
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Hebrew
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O.3 - Testimonies Department of the Yad Vashem Archives