Testimony of Elisheva Ellis Lehman, born in Scheveningen, the Netherlands, 1924, regarding her experiences in hiding places and hidden by Christians

Testimony of Elisheva Ellis Lehman, born in Scheveningen, the Netherlands, 1924, regarding her experiences in hiding places and hidden by Christians From a Zionist family; her parents work in the performing arts. German occupation and her father's offer to help his children commit suicide; her position as Chairwoman of the Student Council despite opposition from the Dutch Nazi students, until 1941,; Red Cross letters informing of the deaths of Jews sent to labor in Germany and Poland; attack by an SS man and help from a Dutch physician; help from neighbors; her father's employer finds the family places to hide; travel to Utrecht with her stepmother using forged documents; routine check of the papers by an SS man who discovers the forgery but lets them go; finds a permanent hiding place with about eight additional Jews hidden by the Kuistra family, an observant Christian family; Mr. Kuistra's membership in the Dutch underground; Kuistra's receives delivery of weapons shipments and finding hiding places for hundreds of Jews; studying the Bible with the patriarch of the Kuistra family; celebrating Hanukkah in hiding. The Kuistra's daughter's emigration to Eretz Israel, converts and marries a Jew; the witness's marriage in the Netherlands to a soldier in the Jewish Brigade and aliya to Eretz Israel; adoption of a Jewish girl abandoned in Belgium; recognition of the Kuistra family as Righteous Among the Nations, 1960; Mr. and Mrs. Kuistra's visit in Israel, and their meeting with the witness's son and President Yitzkhak Ben-Zvi; the witness's occupation memorializing the Holocaust and giving lectures in schools, and her work at Lohamei Hagetaot.