Joint testimony of Rachel (Akerman) Zeiger, born in Antwerp, Belgium, 1928, and Moshe Maurice Akerman, born in Antwerp, Belgium, 1935, regarding their family experiences in Antwerp, Thônes, and Aix-les-Bains

Joint testimony of Rachel (Akerman) Zeiger, born in Antwerp, Belgium, 1928, and Moshe Maurice Akerman, born in Antwerp, Belgium, 1935, regarding their family experiences in Antwerp, Thônes, and Aix-les-Bains Family life in Antwerp before the war; the German occupation in May1940; failed escape attempt; anti-Jewish legislation; escape to southern France in December1941; life in Thônes; imposition of restrictions on movement; mandatory regular reporting to the police station; antisemitism; German occupation, November 1942; deportation of their parents to the Rivesaltes and Gurs camps; staying with the grandmother; the release of their mother from the camp after a few months; receipt of the last postcard from their father; procurement of counterfeit papers; escape to Aix-les-Bains; Jewish neighbors captured by the Gestapo; liberation by the U.S. Army in the summer of 1944; life after the war; Moshe's aliya to Israel in 1949; Rachel's aliya to Israel in 1950; absorption.