ינאי Toth, Lisetta Lizetta

Birth Name ינאי Toth, Lisetta Lizetta
Call Name Lisetta
Gender female

Events

Event Date Place Description Notes Sources
Birth      

 
Residence   Castiglion Fiorentino, provincia di Arezzo. Toscana, Italia Yuzzi Galambos moved with her 4 children to Toscana

Event Note

Yuzzi Galambos lived with her three children in Castiglion Fiorentino, where they had rented a flat in an isolated farm-house, with no running water, and she worked as a translator and gave private lessons in German.
She hired a young girl, Ida Brunelli, as housekeeper and baby sitter, to live with the family and watch her three children.

 
Residence   Monselice, provincia di Padova, Veneto, Italia Ida Brunelli took the three Toth children to her mother's home

Event Note

Ida Brunelli took Sandro, Fiorenza and Lisetta Toth to her mother, in Monselice, where they were introduced as Hungarian refugees, and no one knew they were Jewish.
Wikipedia.org cites: German soldiers, who knew the children's Jewish background, helped them with food and drove them to Ida' mother's, in Monselice.
Ida sought help from the mayor, who helped her find refuge for the three children in Christian institutions near Padua, and Ida acted as their sole guardian.
Padovanet.il cites: With the help of generous people like the Silvia Vincenzina Turolla, Don Aldo Pesavento, Doctor Marcello Minorello and Archbishop Luigi Gnata, the children were given refuge in Noventa Padovana in the Sant Anthony Orphanage Orfanotrofio Sant’Antonio, run by the Frati del Santo di Padova.

Event Note

After the war, Ida Brunelli contacted the Jewish Brigade, who were looking for hidden Jewish orphans in Italy.
Wikipedia.org cites: Yuzzi Galambos' brother, Pauli Galamos Yanai, who lived in Palestine, had asked the soldiers of the Jewish Brigade to check on his sister and her children.
Shlomo Sever Rovitz, who spent some time with the children, verifying Ida’s story, cites: In June, 1945, "18-year-old Ida appeared with three children in the military camp in Santa Colomba, near Siena."

Event Note

To make sure the three children were safely on board the ship leaving from Napoli, Ida Brunelli, for a whole month, travelled with them from camp to camp until she was certain they were in good hands.

 
Camp     Sandro, Lisetta and Fiorenza Toth were detained for a short time

 
Residence   קיבוץ רמת דוד kibbutz Ramat David, עמק יזרעאל,הגליל, ישראל Sandro, Lisetta and Fiorenza Toth were sent to the kibbutz, where their uncle Pauli Yanai lived

Event Note

Zvi Yanai cites "A few months before completing 10th grade, I had dropped out of school at Kibbutz Ramat David and started to work full-time in fodder. Later I was employed in mucking out the cowsheds and the poultry coops."

 

Parents

Father Toth, Kalman
Mother Galambos, Yuzzi
Siblings
  1. ינאי Toth, Fiorenza Yehudit
  2. ינאי Toth, Alessandro 'Sandro'
  3. Toth, Romulo

Narrative

Testimony of Righteous Among the Nations Ida Brunelli-Lenti from Italy

Pedigree

  1. Toth, Kalman
    1. Galambos, Yuzzi
      1. ינאי Toth, Fiorenza Yehudit
      2. ינאי Toth, Lisetta Lizetta
      3. ינאי Toth, Alessandro 'Sandro'
      4. Toth, Romulo

Ancestors