Testimony of Hava Weiner Wolf, born in Bruxelles, Belgium, 1936, regarding her life during the war in Slavonski Brod in various hiding places and in a Jewish orphanage sponsored by the Red Cross

Testimony of Hava Weiner Wolf, born in Bruxelles, Belgium, 1936, regarding her life during the war in Slavonski Brod in various hiding places and in a Jewish orphanage sponsored by the Red Cross Family background; move to Slavonski Brod, 1941. The outbreak of the war; the bombings; order to move to houses marked with a Star of David; move to her aunt's house rescued by the owner of the factory where her father works; giving work to Jewish men and the women and children hiding in an apartment in a factory; rescuing 17 Jews by the owner of a factory called Palesz Antal; issuing an order to arrive at a collection point for transport; the help of the factory owner's brother and removing a group of Jews from the deportation lists; back to factory; whistleblowing; the success of the factory owner in convincing the informant from the factory that they are in fact Russian refugees; persuasion by the factory owner to get the Jewish group to convert to Christianity; arrival at church and conversion; great difficulty in retaining Jews over time; transfer of some of the children with the witness to a Jewish Red Cross orphanage in Budapest; transfer of her father to a factory in Budapest by Palesz in an attempt to save him; taking all the men left in the factory to the camps and taking the women with her mother to the ghetto; the capture of her father by the Germans and his deportation to a concentration camp; transfer with her brother a few days before the evacuation of the orphanage to a hiding place; meeting with her mother. Liberation by the Red Army; the help of the factory owner Palesz to the witness and her mother; move to Ada, Yugoslavia; her father's return; life after the war in Novi sad; aliya to Israel, 1948; absorption.