Testimony of Elazar Lasar Kloizner Klausner, born in Frankfurt, Germany, 1923, regarding his experiences in Frankfurt before the war, in Calais, Antwerp, France and Switzerland

Testimony of Elazar Lasar Kloizner Klausner, born in Frankfurt, Germany, 1923, regarding his experiences in Frankfurt before the war, in Calais, Antwerp, France and Switzerland Childhood in a religious home; Hitler's rise to power, 1933; displays of antisemitism before the war; his father's emigration to Antwerp, Belgium; joining his father in Belgium, 1937; escape to Calais, France; return to Antwerp for security reasons. German occupation, 1940; anti-Jewish legislation: yellow badge, travel restrictions, confiscation of property; obtains false documents of a Christian; travel to Paris with a smuggler, October 1942; from Paris to Lyon; from Lyon to the border between France and Switzerland; from there to Montreux, Switzerland; meeting with Yeshiva students; move to Zurich; enlistment in the Swiss police and deportation to a camp for Jews in hiding illegally. Return to Antwerp at the end of the war; reunion with his father who had been in hiding during the war; life in Belgium.