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Monday, October 23, 2006


RelatioNet RO BR 39 RA PO
BRUNIA RODMAN-BINDER (survivor)


Interviewer:

Full Name/s :Noam Buttel, Omri Yifrach
Email: OYIFRACH@HOTMAIL.CO.IL


Survivor:

Code: RelatioNet ROBR39RAPO
Family Name: RODMAN-BINDER First Name: BRUNIA
Father Name:

Mother Name:
Birth Date: 1/01/19
Town In Holocaust:Radzibilov

Country In Holocaust: Poland/Ukraine
Status (Today): Alive
Alive - Address Today: kefar-saba
Email: OYIFRACH@HOTMAIL.CO.IL

The interview:
The Interview With Brunya.
Brunya was born in 1939 in a small town named Radzivilov in the boarder of Poland and Ukraine. Brunya was born in the beginning of war world II. Her mother knew that something is wrong and so when the Nazis was close to her town she left the baby tied to a tree with a note that had all the details about her near the town Aigi-Lesafyskda. A woman saw her there and felt sorry for her because she knew she is a Jewish survivor after the Nazis killed all the Jews in the Brody area.
Brunya had found out about this from a letter she received from the Poland archives, about the war, after she applied for information about herself her family and her town. In the letter she got a testimony by Yitzhak Freedman a survivor from her town and a friend of the family. Yitzhak told in the testimony that he heard about a woman raising a little girl from his town. He went there in 1942 and spoke with the woman. After the Russians entered the area in 1944 he left his hiding-place and came back to that town to take Brunya with him. In 1945 he decided to go with his family to Germany and took Brunya with him. On the way Brunya got very sick and Yitzhak decided to leave her in Krakow in an orphanage of the Joint Organization.
In Germany Yitzhak met Lazier Rodman, Brunya's uncle. He told lazier that Brunya was in an orphanage. Since then lazier started looking for her all over Poland. When he did find her he tried to get her out of the orphanage to America but they wouldn't let him.
Brunya was transport to an orphanage in Warsaw and then to Lodz.
In 1956 a relative Yehuda Mochen found her and helped her escape to Israel. She was in an Ulpan in Jerusalem for 3 months went to a school for nurses and joined the army in 58. In 1959 she left the army and got married and started to work in the Kaplan hospital.
Brunya doesn't remember the name of the woman that raised her. She remembers a lake near the house and lots of animals. She told us that the woman had two boys that one of them was killed but she couldn't tell us how. She said to us she was very happy there and always knew that when the Germans were coming she had to run up to the attic until they left. After she left the town she didn’t hear anything about that family.

Brunya's parents, Sister, and almost all of her town were murdered in the holocaust.