Testimony of Naftali Neti Tuszynski Shinar, born in Brussels, Belgium, 1934, regarding his experiences in Brussels, in France and in hiding in Belgium

Testimony of Naftali Neti Tuszynski Shinar, born in Brussels, Belgium, 1934, regarding his experiences in Brussels, in France and in hiding in Belgium Secular family originally from Poland, emigrated to Belgium, early 1930s; life before the war. German occupation; move to France for approximately five months; draft of his father into the Free Polish Army; return of his father to his family; return of the family to Brussels; anti-Jewish decrees, 1942; life in hiding in a monastery; deportation of his parents to Auschwitz, 1943; his life in a monastery, from 1942; liberation by the US Army and the British Army, 1944; expropriation of the monastery's buildings by the liberating armies; transfer to a monastery in Gent; transfer to the parents of one on the monks from the monastery; life with the monk's parents for several months. Witness' return to his uncle; placed in a Jewish orphanage in Brussels; return of his mother from the war, and reunion; aliya to Israel with his mother, 1949.