Testimony of Rachel (Berkovitz) Reisman, born in Charleroi, Belgium, 1931, regarding her experiences as a child in Alba, Lyon and hidden by Christians

Testimony of Rachel (Berkovitz) Reisman, born in Charleroi, Belgium, 1931, regarding her experiences as a child in Alba, Lyon and hidden by Christians German occupation of Belgium, 1940; escape of her family to France, May 1940; German demonstrations in France; life with her family in Alba, 1940-1942; violin studies; detention of her father; German occupation, November 1942; transfer of the children to Lyon; Venissieux camp; transfer of the Jewish children to a monastery and hiding them following the intervention of Cardinal Gerlier, summer 1942; hidden with additional children by the Merlin family in Saint- Sauveur-de-Montagut; transfer to Montpellier, autumn 1942; transfer with others to a monastery in Millau, winter 1942; participation in activities with an emissary from Eretz Israel; return to the Merlin family, 1943; move with her mother to Alba, 1944. Punishment of female collaborators by the underground; return to Belgium, 1946; aliya to Israel on the "Negba" ship, 1949.