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Testimony of Basha Bonwitt, born in 1939 in Amsterdam, about her experiences as a girl in Amsterdam and in the home of a non-Jewish family in Treebeek

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Testimony of Basha Bonwitt, born in 1939 in Amsterdam, about her experiences as a girl in Amsterdam and in the home of a non-Jewish family in Treebeek Offspring of immigrants from Poland who had settled in Amsterdam; placed in a home for mentally impaired children that also accommodated Jewish children, apparently in summer 1942; smuggled into the home of a non-Jewish family in Treebeek in early 1943; living openly there; treated excellently by the couple and their extended family; liberated in autumn 1944; life until the end of the war in 1945; difficult parting with the family upon the return of the witness' biological mother; difficulties in adjusting to family and life in Amsterdam; yearning for the village family and maintaining close relations with it; attending a public school and then a Jewish school; immigration to Israel in 1969; staying in close touch with the rescuers' family in the Netherlands.
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9811430
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Basha
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1939
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Amsterdam, The Netherlands
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Testimony
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13539
details.fullDetails.language
Hebrew
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O.3 - Testimonies Department of the Yad Vashem Archives
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06/03/2012
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06/03/2012
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בונביט בשה
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YES
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58
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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