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"The White Sheet Wasn't There"

Hanna Kalvaria née Sharfman

Yudke and Tzila Sharfman with their daughter Hanna by the entrance of the family's shop, 1930
Yudke and Tzila Sharfman with their daughter Hanna by the entrance of the family's shop, 1930

Yudke and Tzila Sharfman with their daughter Hanna by the entrance of the family's shop, 1930
Right: Yudke (Yehuda) Sharfman - Hanna's father. To his left: Menachem Savidor (later Speaker of the Knesset)
Right: Yudke (Yehuda) Sharfman - Hanna's father. To his left: Menachem Savidor (later Speaker of the Knesset)

Right: Yudke (Yehuda) Sharfman - Hanna's father. To his left: Menachem Savidor (later Speaker of the Knesset)
The knife that was given to the family as a present by a guest in 1938 and hidden together with the other items in the barrel
The knife that was given to the family as a present by a guest in 1938 and hidden together with the other items in the barrel

The knife that was given to the family as a present by a guest in 1938 and hidden together with the other items in the barrel
Grandparents Nachman and Yafa with their children Malka, Haim, Bracha and Sima 
Grandparents Nachman and Yafa with their children Malka, Haim, Bracha and Sima 

In the middle: The grandfather, Nachman. To his right - the grandmother, Yafa and their youngest children, Malka and Haim who immigrated to Eretz Israel together with them.
From left: their daughters, Bracha who hid with her brother Yudke's famil,y and Sima (with the ribbon), who was murdered at Auschwitz.
 
 

Grandparents Nachman and Yafa with their children Malka, Haim, Bracha and Sima 
A brooch from Jerusalem that was buried together with the other items in the barrel.
A brooch from Jerusalem that was buried together with the other items in the barrel.

A brooch made by a Yemanite artist at the Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design in Jerusalem, that the grandfather, Nachman brought for his daughter-in-law Tzila when he visited Poland from Eretz Israel in 1939. The brooch was buried together with the other items in the barrel.
 

A brooch from Jerusalem that was buried together with the other items in the barrel.
Page of Testimony in memory of Yehuda Sharfman and his baby son Arieh
Page of Testimony in memory of Yehuda Sharfman and his baby son Arieh

Page of Testimony in memory of Yehuda Sharfman and his baby son Arieh