Testimony of Malka (Maievski) Gemara, born in Brussels, Belgium, 1937, regarding her experiences as a young child in a Jewish institution in Brussels and with a non-Jewish family in a village

Testimony of Malka (Maievski) Gemara, born in Brussels, Belgium, 1937, regarding her experiences as a young child in a Jewish institution in Brussels and with a non-Jewish family in a village From a family of immigrants from Odessa; her father is active in the Jewish community in Brussels. Outbreak of the war; separation from her family, 1940; placed in a Jewish institution in Brussels; life in the institution; transfer to non-Jewish family in a village; fate of her family members, 1945. Move to a Youth Aliyah institution; aliya to Eretz Israel, 1945; life in an Agudat Israel institution in Petah Tikva; move to her grandparents; attends a Beit Yaakov school.