Testimony of Berta (Kaner) Kerpner, born in Ludwigshafen, Germany, 1923, regarding her experiences in Saarbruecken, Lens, using a false identity and in hiding in Beziers, and in Rivesaltes and other places

Testimony of Berta (Kaner) Kerpner, born in Ludwigshafen, Germany, 1923, regarding her experiences in Saarbruecken, Lens, using a false identity and in hiding in Beziers, and in Rivesaltes and other places Life before the war; move to Saarbruecken, 1929; life in Saarbruecken including displays of antisemitism; leaves school; attends a Jewish school; aliya training in Berlin; aliya training in Frankfurt; life in Saarbruecken; interrogation of her father by the Gestapo; escape of her father to Italy; escape of her father to France, 1936; move to France by her father, with her mother and siblings, December 1937; life in Lens. German occupation, 1940; escape; life in a train including enduring shelling in La Pont D'Ardres; death of her younger brother in the shelling; escape back to Lens; life in Lens including receiving a warning from a German commander regarding an approaching detention; escape to the south of France; life in Beziers; receives help and forged documents from a worker in the municipality; escape to hiding places; avoids contact with the local population; detention of her father in Rivesaltes; payment of bribery to a policeman; escape due to being informed on; search by the Gestapo; life in hiding in Saint Sauveur; life in hiding in Gagny; liberation by people in the Maquis underground. Return to Lens; life in Lens including marriage to a man in the Jewish Brigade; aliya to Eretz Israel, 1947.