Testimony of Prof. Aleksander Marzel, born in Strasbourg, France, 1936, regarding his escape with his family from Belgium to the South of France and life there

Early childhood in Antwerp, in an immigrant family; his father deals in diamonds; outbreak of war in 1940; attempt to escape and return to Antwerp; escape to Lyon in the South of France in 1941; living in an isolated house with other relatives, without scarcity; move to the Valence area in September 1942, after being warned by the person in charge of the local police; quiet life with many relatives in an isolated and abandoned castle; departure of the Italians in autumn 1943; receiving Turkish birth certificates from the honorary consul of Turkey in Lyon; move to the city of Valence as Muslims; living in a rented house; not leaving the house except occasionally by his parents; scarcity; hunger; cold; birth of a brother in April 1944; liberation in August 1944; move to Lyon; life of scarcity; difficulties adjusting to school; continued life in France; dental studies; aliya to Israel in 1970; absorption in Israel.