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Testimony of Yehudit Hirsh Netti née Bodenheimer, born in 1943 in Amsterdam, about her experiences as an infant in Amsterdam, Westerbork, Bergen-Belsen, and Tröbitz

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Testimony of Yehudit Hirsh Netti née Bodenheimer, born in 1943 in Amsterdam, about her experiences as an infant in Amsterdam, Westerbork, Bergen-Belsen, and Tröbitz Family background, parents escape to relatives in Amsterdam on Saturday, April 10, 1943; birth of twins at home the next day; deportation with the entire family to Westerbork in late May 1943; life in the camp as a twin baby (as retold by her mother); family obtains Paraguyan citizenship and “certificates” (Mandate Palestine immigration visas) through relatives in Switzerland; transfer about ten moths later to the "Dutch camp" in Bergen-Belsen; life in the camp; deletion from the list of persons designated for exchange; hunger and weakness; placement aboard a train in April 1945; random travel by train across Germany; father dies aboard the train; liberation in Tröbitz on April 24, 1945; back to the Netherlands; life in the Birnbaum orphanage and then with her mother; family emigrates to Britain in 1952; life there until 1965; immigration to Israel in 1965; adjustment to life in Israel.
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item Id
9313238
First Name
Yehudit
Last Name
Bodenheimer
Maiden Name
Hirsh
Date of Birth
1943
Place of Birth
Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Type of material
Testimony
File Number
13401
Language
Hebrew
Record Group
O.3 - Testimonies Department of the Yad Vashem Archives
Date of Creation - earliest
03/01/2011
Date of Creation - latest
03/01/2011
Name of Submitter
בודנהיימר יהודית
Original
YES
Interview Location
ISRAEL
Connected to Item
O.3 - Testimonies gathered by Yad Vashem
Form of Testimony
Video
Dedication
Yad Vashem Document Collection, Moshal Repository