Testimony of Chana (Reiser) Bar Israel, born in Rawa Ruska, Poland, 1925, regarding her experiences in Vienna and Burgess Hill

Testimony of Chana (Reiser) Bar Israel, born in Rawa Ruska, Poland, 1925, regarding her experiences in Vienna and Burgess Hill Life before the war; move to Vienna with her family, 1936. Anschluss and re-annexation of Austria to Germany; detention of her father; displays of antisemitism; termination of studies; seclusion in the family's home; witness receives a scholarship for studies in the Bezalel Art Academy; Kristallnacht; burning of synagogues; attempts by her family to escape from Austria; move of the witness to Great Britain by the Gordonia movement on the Kindertransport, December 1938; life in Great Britain in a vacation village including coordination under the protection of relief organizations; move to Burgess Hill; life in Burgess Hill in a dormitory; receives knowledge regarding the smuggle of her parents to Yugoslavia; agricultural training; end of the war. Work with Jewish orphans; receives knowledge regarding the murder of her parents in a refugee camp in Yugoslavia; move to Marseille; aliya to Israel, 1948.