Testimony of Rivka (Schreiber) Blau, born in Antwerp, Belgium, 1935, regarding her experiences in Antwerp, a village near Liege and hidden in a convent

Testimony of Rivka (Schreiber) Blau, born in Antwerp, Belgium, 1935, regarding her experiences in Antwerp, a village near Liege and hidden in a convent From an immigrant family with five children; economic difficulties. Outbreak of the war; escape in the direction of France; return home after two weeks; birth of a brother, 1941; draft of her father to labor in France, 1942; death of her father in a camp; expulsion of neighborhood residents from their houses, summer 1942; her family remains in their home on the advice of a Belgian policeman; escape with the help of her uncle; move with her sister to a village near Liege; life in the village; placed in a convent with her three sisters; life in an institution for problematic young women located in a convent; attitude of the nuns; visits to church; visit of her mother; interrogation after being informed on by a daughter of a collaborator; liberation. Return to Antwerp with her mother and sisters; life in Antwerp; aliya to Eretz Israel, 1947.