Join the Begin Center for a special event marking Yom HaShoah – A conversation with Holocaust Survivor Leah Bailint.
Leah was born in 1938 in Poland. During the Holocaust, Leah lived in the ghetto and in a Franciscan monastery near Warsaw.
In 1950, 12-year-old Leah immigrated to Israel. She studied at the Reali School in Haifa, and after her military service she studied at a teacher’s seminary and at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem. She was a teacher and later, manager at the WIZO organization.
In 1995, Leah established the “Archive of Children Without Identity”. Her research focuses on thousands of children who stayed in monasteries and did not know their Jewish roots or were not located after the war by their relatives and community members. The institute helps in locating documents that prove the identity of survivors who were children in the Holocaust.
In 1995, Leah Balint lit a torch at Yad Vashem, on the eve of Holocaust Remembrance Day.
