Testimony of Yafa Ben-Yashar, born in Paris 1931, regarding her experiences in Paris, Lamarck, with a non-Jewish family in Villersnes; using a false identity in Dans-Le-Jura and other places

Testimony of Yafa Ben-Yashar, born in Paris, France, 1931, regarding her experiences in Paris, Lamarck, with a non-Jewish family in Villecresnes; using a false identity in Dans-Le-Jura and other places Religious family; attends school; move to Trouville; attitude towards the German refugees. Outbreak of the war; her father is drafted into the French Army; German occupation; escape to a village in Normandy; return to Trouville; move to Paris; deportation of her mother and sister as non-Jews to Lamotte-Beuvron concentration camp; summer camp for Jews near Paris, from July 1942; life in the Rothschild orphanage; her father is deported to Drancy and from there to Auschwitz; deportation to Guy Fatin; joins her brother in Lamarck; witness is smuggled into Villecresnes; life with a non-Jewish family; transfer to the village of Dans-Le Jura with her brother; life using false identities in the area where the French underground is active; attends a convent school; transfer to La Chaudière with her brother, January 1945; visits her mother and smuggles her into a psychiatric hospital; her sister is in hiding in Blois at the home of relatives. Life after the war; studies in a teachers college and a counselors seminary in Israel, 1950; aliya to Israel, 1952.