Testimony of Rachel (Berkovitz) Reisman, born in Charleroi, 1931, regarding her experiences as a child in Charleroi, Alba, Lyon, in hiding in a monastery and other places

Testimony of Rachel (Berkovitz) Reisman, born in Charleroi, 1931, regarding her experiences as a child in Charleroi, Alba, Lyon, in hiding in a monastery and other places German Army occupation of Belgium, 1940; escape to France with her family, May 1940; German demonstrations in France, 1940-1942; family life in Alba; violin studies; her father's detention; invasion of the German Army, November 1942; move to Lyon; move to hiding place in a monastery with the intervention of Cardinal Gerlier; life in hiding in southern France, 1942; move to Montpellier, autumn, 1942; transfer to a monastery in Millau; contacts with an emissary from Eretz Israel; life in hiding in Southern France, 1943. Joins her mother in Alba; return to Belgium, 1946; aliya to Israel on the ship, "Negbah", 1949.