The June 27, 2016 Yehudith is back in Selvino to visit the colony of Sciesopoli and of Opera Bergamasca in Piazzatorre, who had received and had given back a smile and a life expectancy.
On this trip she were accompanied by Annalisa Govi and Matthias Durchfeld dell’Istoreco of Reggio Emilia.
To get her at Selvino there were the Deputy Mayor Paolo Carrara, Marco Cavallarin, Patrizia Ottolenghi and Enrico Grisanti Committee promoters to save the memory of Jewish Sciesopoli.
In Milan, she visited the places where it was hidden and the track 21 of the Foundation of the Holocaust Memorial, the ghost track which set off the trains on which they were deported her mother and grandmother to a tragic end.
On April 1, 2016, she was in the twinning between Selvino and Kibbutz Zeelim happened in Israel.
 

libro di KleinmanYehudith Kleinman wrote its history and the persecution of his family in a beautiful book, “The girl behind the eyes”, Hasharon printing, Hfar Saba (Israel), 2001, which she donated at the Public Library of Selvino. His is the story of the racist and anti-Jewish persecution took place in Europe and in Italy during the years of fascism and World War II.
His father was German-speaking, probably born in Poland, and his mother was born in Mannheim, had wandered through Europe, in several cities in Germany, then France and Switzerland and finally Italy. In fact Yehudith was born in Venice in 1938 with the last name of Grosswirth. After the divorce of parents, she lived in Milan with his mother Anna and grandmother.
Her father disappeared the same day that World War II broke out and nobody knows what happened. Sad omen of a war that would leave alive only the small Yehudith.

One day some Nazi soldiers knocked at their home and brought them to a barracks. With them was a Christian neighbor. Yehudith was only five years. The put a terrible dilemma (choice), choosing whether to stay with the mother, or go with the Christian neighbor.
The Nazis were joking about the fate of their victims. They knew to make fun of their destiny and their feelings and enjoyed themselves on their lives. As if the fate of those people were not in the hands of the executioners, but in those of their victims.
In this way, they are terrorizing their captives. It took was a misstep for falling into the abyss of the deportation and death. A fury completely free and unjustified.
The little girl looked at the expression on the face of her mother, who rejected it and begged to go the other way.
Then chose the small Christian neighbor. In this way he was not deported to Nazi Yehudith Kleinman a Selvino 2016-06-27concentration camps along with his mother and grandmother. So that he survived a tragic end.
The neighbor took her to a Catholic convent who agreed to hide it.
After great difficulties, Yehudith was convinced by the nuns to recite Christian prayers, while every day waiting for his mother to come back from her.
In 1945, when she was seven and a half years, it was informed that a man and a woman together with Mother Superior were waiting.
Yehudith thought that at last his father and his mother had returned to reclaim their child. quickly he ran to the office. But what it was the shock to discover that the two people were from a Jewish organization and they were there to take her to Israel. While Jewish representatives discussed with the mother superior, Yehudith had to choose whether to remain in the monastery or go with the two strangers. Instinctively, he hoped that his mother was waiting in Israel. So he chose to leave the convent and go with the two emissaries Jews that led to the first of Piazzatorre colony and then in Selvino, in the big house of Sciesopoli where he learned Hebrew, studied, sang, recited, played as he had never been able to do in his childhood and had many friends. The smile returned to illuminate his face and hope in a better future. So he managed to reach Israel with illegal immigration ships.
She lives in Tel Aviv and was a teacher open-minded, kind and smiling with all his students.

Yehudith Kleinman’s testimony.

Testimonianza di Yehudith Kleinman, Tel Aviv


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