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Testimony of Faina Volfson, born in Kiev, Ukraine, 1931, regarding her experiences as a child during wanderings, in Tashkent in a dormitory school for the deaf and working in a kolkhoz

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Testimony of Faina Volfson, born in Kiev, Ukraine, 1931, regarding her experiences as a child during wanderings, in Tashkent in a dormitory school for the deaf and working in a kolkhoz Early childhood as an only child to deaf parents; life in a deaf environment; attendance at a school for the deaf. Outbreak of the war, 1941; return to the school and being evacuated with them; wanderings for about a year until Tashkent, summer 1942; studies in the same framwork with local children joining the school; meeting with her parents who came to the school; labor in a kolkhoz. Return with her parents to Kiev at the end of the war; continuation of studies and life in Kiev; emigration with her husband and children to the United States, 1978; aliya to Israel, 1991.
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7624171
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Faina
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Volfman
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14/05/1931
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Kiev, Ukraine (USSR)
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Testimony
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SIGNS LANGUAGE
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O.3 - Testimonies Department of the Yad Vashem Archives
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24/12/08
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24/12/08
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Volfman Faina
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YES
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ISRAEL
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O.3 - Testimonies gathered by Yad Vashem
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Video
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Moshal Repository, Yad Vashem Archival Collection