Ivolia Tzitron

Amigour "Yad Vashem" Home for the Elderly, Beersheba

Whoever was not there, will not be able to really understand what had happened, the suffering and the pain we went through. What I told you was just a drop in the ocean.

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Nama Gershgoren (Leiderman)

Amigour Hagilad Sheltered Home, Nahariya

I was born in 1933 in the village of Verkhobka, in the district of Vinica, in the Ukraine. At the beginning of the war my father, David Leiderman, volunteered for the army and was killed at the front.

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Yavgenya Basov

Amigour Sheltered Home, Talpiot, Jerusalem

Yavgenia was born in 1936 in a small village in Ukraine. She was five years old when the Nazis rounded up all the village's inhabitants, most of whom were Jews, and banished them to a nearby forest that they fenced in and named Camp Kopai.

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Ninel Viner

Amigour Dagan Sheltered Home, Holon

The memories – how do they manage to force us to go experience, again and again, what we have forgotten long ago, and how we can't escape the memories of the horror and the scars are etched into us forever.

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Betty Miatowitz

"My little sister was loaded while still alive into a truck with corpses, and this was the last time I saw her."

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Alexander Netzer

Resident of Amigour's Derech Hashalom Sheltered Home in Tel Aviv

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Paulina Genosoba

Amigour Dagan Sheltered Home, Holon
My mother led me and my little suitcase on a children’s sledge. We parted, as it transpired, forever. I never saw her again.

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Holocaust Survivor's War Traumas

Aspir Balta ( Pira) Balta is an 80 year old widow of a disabled Second World War veteran who resides in Amigour's "Neve Dekalim" Sheltered Home in Ashkelon. She is sitting in the secured area in the building during the rocket attack from Gaza.

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Arcadi Sobol

Amigour Haamakim Sheltered Home, Kiryat Bialik
I was born June 14, 1930 in the Ukraine.We were a family of five – my father Shulim Sobol, my mother Masia Moaisievna, me – 12 years old, my little sister Batya aged 5, and my little brother Itzik aged 2.

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Taia Kaplan

Taia was born in 1920 on the road to Bucharest, in the Romanian town of Fokshan, in her grandmother’s home. It was a small house with a garden and cats and dogs who lived together in harmony.

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Dora Shapiro

Meet Dora Shapiro, born in Dnipro, Ukraine in 1936. Dora was adopted at the tender age of one month by a childless, lovely couple.

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