Testimony of Suzanne Berthe (Levy) Wasserteil, born in Paris, France, 1930, regarding her experiences in Paris, Annecy, Geneva, Lausanne, Champéry and La Chaux-de-Fonds

Testimony of Suzanne Berthe (Levy) Wasserteil, born in Paris, France, 1930, regarding her experiences in Paris, Annecy, Geneva, Lausanne, Champéry and La Chaux-de-Fonds Childhood as an only child in a family in Paris; her father owns a tailoring workshop; studies at a general school; connections with non-Jewish society; her father's conscription into the French Army, 1939; Outbreak of the war, 1940; her father's escape to the south; assistance of her mother in smuggling children as part of her Union générale des israélites de France (UGIF) activities; arrival of her father; the family escapes south, 1942; being left alone with a non-Jewish family; her mother's capture; family members' arrival by train to Annecy; paying to cross the border into Switzerland, summer 1943; interrogation by Swiss soldiers; transfer to Geneva; separation from the family; arrival alone at the Camp de Vidy Refugee Camp in Lausanne; transfer to the Champéry refugee camp; transfer to family members in La Chaux-de-Fonds; attendance at a local school; active in the Scout movement; receiving news of her father's arrest; return with her aunt to France, summer 1945; studies at an Œuvre de secours aux enfants (OSE-Children’s Aid Society) institution boarding school; Aliya to Israel,1948.