Testimony of Etta Esther (Fridman) Dagen, born in Berlin, Germany, 1929, regarding her experiences in Berlin during Kristallnacht, and in Belgium and Switzerland
Testimony of Etta Esther (Fridman) Dagen, born in Berlin, Germany, 1929, regarding her experiences in Berlin during Kristallnacht, and in Belgium and Switzerland
Testimony
Testimony of Etta Esther (Fridman) Dagen, born in Berlin, Germany, 1929, regarding her experiences in Berlin during Kristallnacht, and in Belgium and Switzerland
Modern family; attends a Jewish school.
Stay in hiding during Kristallnacht; her father's escape to Belgium; her mother's escape to Belgium via Poland; life with her brother in the home of the Jewish community's cleaning woman and in a children's home; travel to Belgium; life as a family until 1942; detention of her father after being informed on by a Jew; dispersion of her family to hiding places; life in hiding in a village near Namur; illegally crosses the border into Switzerland, late 1943; life in a children's home in the framework of Youth Aliyah, until 1945.
Aliya to Eretz Israel, 1945.
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item Id
7211225
First Name
Esther
Eta
Etta
Last Name
Dagan
Dagen
Maiden Name
Fridman
Date of Birth
1929
Place of Birth
Berlin, Germany
Type of material
Testimony
Language
Hebrew
Record Group
O.3 - Testimonies Department of the Yad Vashem Archives