Memoirs of Dan Ben Simcha, formerly Isaac Cygielszteyn, born in Brussels in 1931, regarding his experiences in children's homes in Wezembeek, Momignies and Aische-en-Refail

His parents - Szymsio/Szymsie Cygielszteyn and Glika (Szpurman); his father was a shoemaker; the Exode: escape to the Puy de Dôme region in France in 1940 and his father's work in a shoe factory in Courpière; return to Brussels; deportation of his parents to Auschwitz; stay in the home of the secretary of the Red Cross, and transfer to a children's home in Momignies a month later; transfer to a Jewish children's home in Wezembeek; transfer to a children's home in Aische-en-Refail; hiding during ...