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Testimony of Barbara Chawa (Walk) Laufer, born in Nimkau, Germany, 1923, regarding her experiences in Nimkau, Breslau, England, Whittingehame and Israel
Testimony
Testimony of Barbara Chawa (Walk) Laufer, born in Nimkau, Germany, 1923, regarding her experiences in Nimkau, Breslau, England, Whittingehame and Israel
Life as the only Jewish family in Nimkau; attitude of the Christians after the Nazi rise to power, 1933; witness attends a school in Nimkau; attends a Hebrew high school in Breslau; aliya of her older sister to Eretz Israel with Youth Aliyah, 1936; move to Breslau, 1937.
Kristallnacht riots; detention of her father in Buchenwald for one month; her father's move to Italy; witness' move to England with other children, on the Kindertransport, 1939; life in the castle of Lord Balfour in Whittingehame, Scotland; move to an aliya training farm in England, 1941; work for English farmers.
Life in England until 1946; illegal aliya attempt to Eretz Israel, 1947; detention in Cyprus for approximately one year; aliya to Israel, 1948; life in Israel.
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item Id
7984803
First Name
Barbara
Chawa
Last Name
Laufer
Maiden Name
Walk
Date of Birth
1923
Place of Birth
Nimkau, Germany
Type of material
Testimony
Language
Hebrew
Record Group
O.3 - Testimonies Department of the Yad Vashem Archives
Date of Creation - earliest
13/07/2009
Date of Creation - latest
13/07/2009
Name of Submitter
Laufer Barbara Chawa
Original
YES
Interview Location
ISRAEL
Connected to Item
O.3 - Testimonies gathered by Yad Vashem
Form of Testimony
Video
Subjects
Dedication
Yad Vashem Document Collection, Moshal Repository