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"The insulation in the corona sheltered housing was 5 stars compared to the felt in the house"

As a child, Shula Halevi, a classmate of Anne Frank, was sent to live with Dutch peasants who hid her from the Nazis.

Today she lives in the Nofim Sheltered Housing Center in Jerusalem and says: "I love the peace, quiet and friendship. At home you are alone, you have nothing."

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Thursday, 01 October 2020, 10:10

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In the video: The moving story of Shula Halevi, a tenant of Nofim Tower in Jerusalem (Photo: Ido ShahamEditing: Dafi Makal)

Changes and transitions are difficult for all of us and leaving the house after many years and moving to sheltered housing is not a simple challenge, especially for an older person who is moving to live alone.

Shula Halevi, who lives in a sheltered housing tower in Jerusalem, does not regret the move for a moment.

According to her, the isolation in the first wave of the Corona was "five-star isolation compared to what I experienced in my life and alone at home" and she says: "All these years I worked hard and hoped I could read books and do what I wanted. No one bothered me. "A day by our order. There was someone on the phone who was in charge knowing that everything was fine, that we got food, the things from the stores, if we needed something healthy or wanted something. It worked so well, I have no words."

Shula is a Holocaust survivor and was a classmate of Anne Frank.

During the Holocaust she was hidden in a barn of a Dutch peasant family and thus survived.

The isolation during the Corona period was already really small on it.

Raanan Baranowski got to know her better.

Shula was the youngest of four children and says that in 1942 the Germans had already begun to come to the houses, pick up the Jews and send them to the camps: "I remember the fear of coming home from school, and what I would find there. "Bring me on the train to the people who will take care of me on the farm, with a lot of animals. I wonder today how I agreed to that, because I was terribly spoiled. A little girl. I said goodbye to my mother and today I think about how she also said goodbye to me."

About the farmer who guarded her, she says: "He was a carpenter and in a room where his daughter and I slept, he made a small double wall, which you can not see and then we could go in there when we were told there were tests. I was there for almost five years."

One day, says Shula, a cousin of her mother appeared in the same village and told her that she was a Jewish girl: "I felt terrible. I did not want to leave. I was still a girl, not an object. Some of the children who came back alone from the camps and the peasants came to a special children's home. "I have always found people like them and to this day I am in touch with the children from there. We are very connected."

"I did not want to be a burden on the children. There is an outstanding nursing department here, one of the best. Every week we have an excellent class of literature, there is painting, ceramics, Yiddish, concerts. So much that it is impossible to get everything. Another one of the good things here It is that if suddenly the electricity falls or there is a problem with the faucet, you inform and immediately come and fix everything. "

"The peace, quiet and friendship. At home you are alone, you have nothing. Even if you are fine and even if you need something, you can not leave the house. It took me a while, but I feel at home here, definitely."

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