Testimony of Sonia Suzanne (Leibel) Leroy Eshel, born in Tarnow, Poland, 1931, regarding her experiences in Tarnow, Brussels and in hiding

Testimony of Sonia Suzanne (Leibel) Leroy Eshel, born in Tarnow, Poland, 1931, regarding her experiences in Tarnow, Brussels and in hiding Displays of antisemitism; non-Zionist family; emigration to Belgium, 1938; witness attends school in French. Attempt to escape to France; return to Belgium; German occupation; anti-Jewish restrictions; ban on studies; yellow badge; curfew; deportation of her parents to Malines; "Aktion"; deportation of her parents, 1942; her two sisters are placed in an orphanage; move of her grandmother to an old age home, by the Queen Mother; deportation of her sisters and two aunts to Auschwitz after being informed on; hidden by a Protestant family in a village while using a false identity with the name Suzanne Leroy; visit in a church; keeps her Jewish identity; attempt at sexual abuse by the family's father; move to her grandmother. Fate of her family members; return to Brussels; studies; activities in the Hashomer Hatzair movement; aliya training; aliya to Israel, 1948.