Shulamit Tirzah " Shula " Rothschild was born in 1946 in Amsterdam , the Netherlands to Ilse Hertha ( née Strauss ) and Max Michael Rothschild . She was named after the Shulamite to whom the biblical Solomon sung the Song of Songs . Rothschild 's family were of German-Jewish heritage and as teenagers her parents became involved in the Socialist-Zionist youth movement known as Habonim to learn the agricultural skills which might be needed for life on a kibbutz . During World War II both of Rothschild 's parents ' families were scattered . Her father 's sisters were rescued through the Kindertransport program , which sent them to England , and his parents , fled to Malden , Massachusetts . Her mother 's parents were transported from Germany to the Gurs concentration camp near Pau , France . Rothschild 's maternal grandfather died from starvation in Gurs before her maternal grandmother was sent to Auschwitz and exterminated . Two maternal aunts managed to escape to Palestine and survived The Holocaust . After Kristallnacht and Max 's detention in Buchenwald , Rothschild 's parents fled their homeland with the help of Habonim , which secured Max 's release . Hoping to pass through Holland and make aliyah to Eretz Yisrael , they were unable to leave the country because of the limits on immigration imposed by the British White Paper of 1939 . When the Nazis invaded in 1940 , the couple were forced into hiding . Thirteen months after the war ended , Rothschild was born and when she was one year old , her family migrated to the United States to join her paternal grandparents in Massachusetts . They did not remain long , but immigrated to Israel within a year and a half , where Rothschild 's sister , Tova Chaya " Toby " was born . Plans did not go as expected and the family soon returned to Massachusetts . A brother , Yonatan Efraim " Jonathan " , joined the family and Rothschild attended first grade in suburban Boston
The Holocaust
The Holocaust
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