Memoirs of Susanne (Dyner) Freeling, born in Brussels in 1938, about her experiences in and after the Holocaust

Memoirs of Susanne (Dyner) Freeling, born in Brussels in 1938, about her experiences in and after the Holocaust - memoirs of Susanne (Dyner) Freeling, written in Israel in January 2023: Family life; witness and parents, Jacques Israel Baruch Dyner and Helene (Kapeluznik) Dyner, both from Poland; married in Brussels in 1937; Germans occupy Belgium in May 1940; bombardments; Jews persecuted; family shelters in hiding from 1942 to July 1944; family members captured by Gestapo operatives in July 1944; witness's parents beaten; imprisoned in Brussels; witness released from prison with help of Red Cross protective document and placed in a Jewish children's home in Aische en Refail; witness's parents sent to the Mechelen camp and thence to Auschwitz in July 1944; father perishes; mother survives Auschwitz and Dachau; witness stays in children's home until traced by grandparents at end of war; lives with grandparents in Brussels; search for information about fate of witness's parents; mother returns in 1945; remarries in 1948; second husband is Hermann Frank; some relatives emigrate to the United States after the war; witness and parents emigrate to France in 1950 and thence to the United States in 1952; Hermann Frank helps Holocaust survivors; witness marries Marvin Freeling in 1958; starts a family; work and family life; avoids conversation about her childhood experiences until 1992; immigrates to Israel in 2013; life in Israel; - experiences of Helene Frank, previous surname Dyner née Kapeluznik, born in Łódź in 1909, written by her daughter, Suzanne (Dyner) Freeling in June 2023; - experiences of Jacques Israel Baruch Dyne, born in Warsaw in 1907, written by his daughter, Suzanne (Dyner) Freeling in June 2023.