Testimony of Rachel (Mitman) Brot, born in Baligrod, Poland, 1922, regarding her experiences in 'S Gravenhage and Westerbork
Testimony of Rachel (Mitman) Brot, born in Baligrod, Poland, 1922, regarding her experiences in 'S Gravenhage and Westerbork
Testimony
Testimony of Rachel (Mitman) Brot, born in Baligrod, Poland, 1922, regarding her experiences in 'S Gravenhage and Westerbork
Life before the war; emigration to 'S Gravenhage, the Netherlands, 1929; separate synagogue for Jews from eastern Europe.
German occupation; life during the German occupation; concentration of the city's Jews and their deportation to Westerbork, 1942; forced labor in agriculture for farmers in the vicinity; deportation of her family to Auschwitz; fictitious marriage to a Jewish policeman; liberation by the Canadian Army, 1945.
Move to Amsterdam; joins Bnei Akiva; illegally crosses the border into France with help from the Jewish Brigade; aliya to Eretz Israel, 1946.
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7202913
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Rachel
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Brot
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Mitman
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16/09/1922
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Baligrod, Poland
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Hebrew
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O.3 - Testimonies Department of the Yad Vashem Archives