Joint testimony of sisters, Ketty Meira (Kurcbard) Assa, born in Lille, France, 1939, and Cecile (Kurcbard) Salama, born in Lille, France, 1941, regarding their experiences as toddlers while hidden by French families and life while using a false identity

Joint testimony of sisters, Ketty Meira (Kurcbard) Assa, born in Lille, France, 1939, and Cecile (Kurcbard) Salama, born in Lille, France, 1941, regarding their experiences as toddlers while hidden by French families and life while using a false identity Family's unsuccessful attempt to escape to Switzerland, 1940; return to Lille; birth of Cecile, 1941; deportation of the family, August 1942; cutting off of the railroad car with the children from the train by the French underground; dispersion of the children in ambulances to hiding places with various families; move of Ketty to a hiding place while hidden by Alice Legras, later recognized as a Righteous Among the Nations, in the town of Bethune; Ketty's life in hiding; visits in the church; hidden in various places during the approach of the Germans; move of Cecile to a hiding place while hidden by a Christian family; move between various Christian families; Cecile is fostered by a Jewish family in Roubaix, 1944; liberation, summer 1944. Ketty's life in an institution in Rueil Malmaison, 1946; displays of antisemitism after the war; aliya of Ketty to Israel, 1953; aliya to Cecile to Israel, 1962.