Testimony of Arie Finika, born in Antwerp, Belgium, 1932, regarding his experiences as a child in Antwerp and in hiding while using a false identity

Testimony of Arie Finika, born in Antwerp, Belgium, 1932, regarding his experiences as a child in Antwerp and in hiding while using a false identity His family's life before the war; religious home; his family observes the religious commandments; attends a Jewish school in Antwerp. Escape of the family to France before the German occupation; wanderings; separation from his father; return to Antwerp; deportation of his father to Drancy camp in France; deportation of his father to Auschwitz and his father's murder in Auschwitz; "Aktion" and deportation of the Jews from their neighborhood to a concentration camp; in hiding with the help of a Belgian policeman; move of his mother and the family's children to a hiding place in an apartment in Brussels; witness and his brother are hidden by a Belgian farmer; hidden in Brussels by a Belgian couple; move to a sanatorium for children with asthma; life using a false identity until liberation by the US Army. Assembly of the children from their hiding places and their move to a transit camp, including education; reunion with his family; life in Antwerp; aliya to Israel, 1959; absorption.