Testimony of Esther (Troppauer) Nir, born in Plauen, Germany, 1926

Testimony of Esther (Troppauer) Nir, born in Plauen, Germany, 1926 Childhood in a traditional, well-to-do family; move of the family to Berlin, 1931; antisemitism; obligation to hand over gold items, 1934; deportation of her father to Poland, October 1938; Kristallnacht, November 1938; attempt to smuggle the witness, her sister and her mother to Poland after making contact with her father; being captured by the Germans and her father's success in transferring them to Poland; the dif...