From Lwow to Parma: A Young Woman’s Escape from Nazi-Occupied Poland

Klara Rosenfeld was born Klara Silverman in 1924 in Lwow, Poland. This book tells the story of her courageous fight for survival of the Holocaust, the loss of the world she knew, the help given to her by an Italian soldier and her escape to a convent in Italy. After the war she was located by the Jewish Brigades and united with other Jewish survivors in a ‘kibbutz’ in Parma. After eight months, in 1946, she joined over nine hundred survivors on the Enzo Sereni freight ship bound for Palestine. The two-week voyage ended when the British caught the ship and sent the passengers to prison camps in Atilt.After her release Klara learned that her eldest brother, Imek, had survived and was living in the USA. She chose to stay in Palestine, and a year later met her husband and settled in Rishon Le Zion, Israel, where she raised her two children and lives to this day. In 1944 Klara and her family went back to the town of Fontanellato, Italy, to present her rescuer, Fosco, and his sister Tina with the Righteous Gentile Award from Yad Vashem and the government of Israel.