Testimony of Katarina (Torn) Adler, born in Amsterdam, the Netherlands, 1922, regarding her experiences in Beverwijk, Amsterdam, in hiding in Loosdrecht, underground activities and while using a false identity

Testimony of Katarina (Torn) Adler, born in Amsterdam, the Netherlands, 1922, regarding her experiences in Beverwijk, Amsterdam, in hiding in Loosdrecht, underground activities and while using a false identity Life before the war; move to Haarlem; joins the Zionist youth movement when she was 11 years old; activities as a counselor. German occupation; joins aliya training in Beverwijk; return to Amsterdam, 1942; life in Amsterdam with her mother including work as a counselor in an institution for Jewish orphans; aliya training activities; contacts with the underground group of Joop Johan Westerweel (later recognized as a Righteous Among the Nations); manhunt by Gestapo people; deportation of the children to Westerbork; escape to Loosdrecht; life in hiding while hidden by the Waterman family, who were connected to Westerweel; underground activities; receives a false identity with the name Hana de Yong; acts of escape; search for hiding places; cooperation with the Dutch underground; activities as an instructor in an institution for people with learning disabilities and as an actress (in the underground); work as a caregiver in a sanatorium for tuberculosis patients; contacts with underground people; end of the war. Convalescence from tuberculosis illness in a sanatorium; studies painting in Switzerland; establishment of the "Tikvatenu" ("Our Hope") centers for youth with her husband; aliya to Israel, 1951.