Testimony of Joseph Menaster, born in Antwerp, Belgium, 1939 regarding his move to hiding in a village near Antwerp and later assuming a false identity in Voorst

A secular family. His father drafted to forced labor and his escape after two months, 1942; being placed in hiding in a village near Antwerp; his father's connections with Glen Andrée, who was in charge of hiding children for the Belgian resistance and later recognized as Righteous Among the Nations; his father's efforts to convince parents to hide their children with the help of the Belgian resistance; increasing persecution and his transfer by the resistance to Voorst under the false identity of Joseph Christian Münster; he stayed with Catholic nuns for three years and was baptized into Christianity at the end of the war; his father's arrest by the Gestapo following a denunciation, and his release, September 1944. After the war ended, his father retrieved him from hiding; establishment of an orphanage; return to Belgium after a few months; Aliya to Israel, 1974; absorption.