Testimony of Rachel (Cohen) Erlanger, born in Dieren, the Netherlands, 1929, regarding her experiences in Arnhem, Amsterdam, Valkenburg and being hidden by families in south Holland

Testimony of Rachel (Cohen) Erlanger, born in Dieren, the Netherlands, 1929, regarding her experiences in Arnhem, Amsterdam, Valkenburg and being hidden by families in south Holland Move of family to Arnhem; attends a government school; religious life; arrival of German refugees. German occupation; deteriorating situation; yellow badge; expulsion from school; transfer to a Jewish school; transfer to the Amsterdam Ghetto with the aid of a Righteous Among the Nations; transfer to Valkenburg; life with her sister hidden by a village family; visits by Paul Terwiudt (Righteous Among Nations); being hidden by various families in southern Netherlands; liberation. Meets other Jews who had been hidden in the village; informed about the Heldens family (later recognized as Righteous Among the Nations) and their wonderful treatment; meeting her parents at Eerbeek; life after the war; longings for the Heldens family; move to Amsterdam; aliya to Israel.