Testimony of Menachem Mendel Maringer, born in Brussels, Belgium, 1931, regarding his experiences while hidden by Catholic families in villages and in a monastery in Belgium

Testimony of Menachem Mendel Maringer, born in Brussels, Belgium, 1931, regarding his experiences while hidden by Catholic families in villages and in a monastery in Belgium Orthodox, religious family; his family's unsuccessful attempts to make aliya to Eretz Israel, 1930s. Outbreak of the war; German occupation of Belgium, 1940; escape to the south of France; life in hiding; return to Belgium; anti-Jewish restrictions; move to a village in Belgium with his sister, with help from the underground; fostered by Catholic families in villages; life in hiding in a monastery; detention of his parents; deportation of his parents to Mechelen; transfer of his parents to Auschwitz; rescue of his grandmother in a home for the elderly under the protection of the Queen [of Belgium]. Attempts by the rescuer families to adopt the children after the war; activities in the Dror-Habonim movement; meets Jewish Brigade people; aliya to Eretz Israel, 1946.