Testimony of Abraham Asscher, born in Amsterdam, the Netherlands, 1933, regarding his experiences in Amsterdam, Westerbork and Bergen-Belsen

Testimony of Abraham Asscher, born in Amsterdam, the Netherlands, 1933, regarding his experiences in Amsterdam, Westerbork and Bergen-Belsen From a well-to-family. German occupation, May 1940; anti-Jewish decrees; expulsion from the Dutch elementary school and transfer to a Jewish school; prohibition from entering public places and riding on the electric tram; confiscation of property; evening curfew, yellow badge; eviction from his home to the [Jewish?] quarter, summer 1942; deportation of the family to Westerbork, September 1943; crowding; Yom Kippur (October 1943); classrooms; birth of his sister, December 1943; transfer to Bergen-Belsen, May 1944; separation between men and women; fleas; dogs; cold; hunger; roll calls; transfer of his father and his brothers to forced labor and their disappearance; typhus; death of his mother and his baby sister, February 1945; remaining alone with his younger brother; religious faith; liberation, 15 April 1945. Return to the Netherlands; rehabilitation; aliya to Israel, 1953.