Testimony of Varda Drori, born in Berlin, Germany, 1936, regarding her experiences as a child in Berlin, Antwerp, Toulouse, using a false identity in Montlucon and other places

Testimony of Varda Drori, born in Berlin, Germany, 1936, regarding her experiences as a child in Berlin, Antwerp, Toulouse, using a false identity in Montlucon and other places Life before the war; her assimilated family was originally from Poland; release of her father from Dachau; Kristallnacht; escape to Antwerp with her family, 1938; escape with her family to Toulouse, May 1940; escape to Montlucon; life in a monastery in Montlucon with her family; her mother's labor as an assistant to the nuns; her father's labor as a tailor; studies the French language with her sister; attends school using a false identity; regular church attendance and participation in catechism classes; her father's arrest, 1942; deportation of her father to a camp; leaving the monastery; placed with the OSE along with her sister; transfer to Savoie by the OSE; life in Savoie under Italian occupation; life with a family in exchange for payment until 1943; German occupation, late 1943; transfer to a family of underground members along with her sister; life with the family without payment; end of the war. Reunion with her mother; move to Montlucon; life in Montlucon including aliya to Eretz Israel, 1948.