Given name: Sophie Family name: Goetzel-Leviathan

  • YES
  • Female
  • Sophie
  • Goetzel-Leviathan
  • Walfisz
  • Wiesbaden
  • Yes
  • In January 1943 the author left the ghetto, was hiding in Konstancin, Milanowek and was persecuted by blackmailers. Her husband and daughter were hiding elsewhere. In July 1943 the entire family turned up at the Hotel Polski and where subsequently deported to the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp. Description of living conditions in the camp, evacuation of the camp in April 1945, liberation and departure to Paris. The author came from a family of Polish Jews, who lived in Germany for some time. She studied in Paris before the war. After the war she emigrated to Israel.

  • hideout, survivors
  • 4-5