Testimony of Chana (Vulf) Keren, born in Amsterdam, the Netherlands, 1924, regarding her experiences in Amsterdam, in hiding, and living with Dutch people in Voorthuizen while using a false identity and in a forest

Testimony of Chana (Vulf) Keren, born in Amsterdam, the Netherlands, 1924, regarding her experiences in Amsterdam, in hiding, and living with Dutch people in Voorthuizen while using a false identity and in a forest Life before the war; from a well-to-do religious family; her father owns a business; her mother's death; attends elementary and high school; her father's remarriage. "Aktion", 1941; works in a day care center for Jewish children; yellow badge; her father's decision to find a hiding place for the family; her family is transferred to hiding places; transfer to the home of farmers in Voorthuizen by the underground; receives the false identity of Johanna Oldenbarneveld from the underground; life in Voorthuizen; transfer to the Vermeulen family; life with the Vermeulen family including searches by the Germans; deportation of her sister to Westerbork; transfer of her sister to Auschwitz; surgery in a hospital including fear of being turned in; escape to a forest; escape back to her hiding place; air-raid; liberation. Return to the family home; transfer by the Jewish Brigade to aliya training in Gouda; life in France including establishment of a camp for the Zionist immigrants; aliya attempt to Eretz Israel on the ship, "Theodor Herzl"; detention on Cyprus; aliya to Eretz Israel, 1947.