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Testimony of Rosalia Nina (Schneider) David, born in Antwerp, Belgium, 1936, regarding her experiences in Antwerp, Profondeville, an orphanage and in hiding in St. Servais while using a false identity

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Testimony of Rosalia Nina (Schneider) David, born in Antwerp, Belgium, 1936, regarding her experiences in Antwerp, Profondeville, an orphanage and in hiding in St. Servais while using a false identity German Army occupation [of Antwerp]; escape to France via Dunkerque; return of her family to Antwerp, 1940; life in Antwerp including air-raids and anti-Jewish legislation; her family's move to Profondeville, 1941; fear of deportation to concentration camps; placed in an orphanage of a Catholic monastery in the Namur region; hiding of her parents by a Belgian family, 1942; move from the orphanage to her parents in Profondeville due to illness and her need for surgery, 1942; capture of her mother by the Gestapo; deportation of her mother to Auschwitz, 1942; rescue of the witness by the Belgian underground along with her father; in hiding in St. Servais while hidden by a Belgian family named Champagne, while the witness used the false name Nicole Brasseur; her father is in hiding while hidden by a Belgian family, 1942; move to another family during the increase in air-raids, 1944; liberation by the US Army, 1944. Life in Antwerp; marriage; emigration to London, 1958.
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8426855
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Nina
Rosalia
Rozalia
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David
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Schneider
Shneider
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15/09/1936
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Antwerpen, Belgium
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Testimony
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English
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O.3 - Testimonies Department of the Yad Vashem Archives
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22/12/09
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22/12/09
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David Schneider Rosalia Nina
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YES
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ISRAEL
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O.3 - Testimonies gathered by Yad Vashem
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Video
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Moshal Repository, Yad Vashem Archival Collection