Testimony of Barbara Chawa (Walk) Laufer, born in Nimkau, Germany, 1923, regarding her experiences in Nimkau, Breslau, England, Whittingehame and Israel

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.