Dorit Meier

Testimony of Dorit (Stern) Meier, born in Meinz, Germany, 1926, regarding her experiences in Germany until 1937, Westerbork and Theresienstadt Well-to-do family; her father is a horse-hair trader; Nazi rise to power; forced emigration to the Netherlands, September 1937; life in a guest house in Amsterdam; move to Roterdam; move to Blarikum; life in Blarikum; return to Amsterdam. Deportation to Westerbork, January 1943; deportation of her parents to Theresienstadt; transfer to Theresienstadt; camp life including social activities; transfer of her parents to Auschwitz; death of her parents; liberation by the Red Army. Return to Amsterdam; joins aliya training; move to France; meets her future husband; aliya to Eretz Israel, 1947.