Testimony of Marian Troper née Hertz, born in 1930 in Strasbourg, France, about her experiences in Perigueux, in Beaulieu, and in hiding under a false identity in Autoire

Testimony of Marian Troper née Hertz, born in 1930 in Strasbourg, France, about her experiences in Perigueux, in Beaulieu, and in hiding under a false identity in Autoire Offspring of a family with roots in France; purchasing a chateau; father inducted into the French Army; family gathers at the grandfather's chateau; Germany occupies France and the witness' area in 1940; permission to move to Perigueux; hearing rumors about deportation; escaping to Beaulieu; mother involved in saving children from camps; placement in hiding; life in hiding in Autoire under a false non-Jewish identity; father active in the French Resistance; grandmother arrested in Lyons; spared from deportation to Auschwitz; hiding a prayer book; immigration to Israel in 1950.