Testimony of Betsie Bausch née Polak, de Leeuw, born in 1919 in Amsterdam, about her experiences in Amsterdam, Deventer, in hiding in Laren, The Hague, etc.

Testimony of Betsie Bausch née Polak, de Leeuw, born in 1919 in Amsterdam, about her experiences in Amsterdam, Deventer, in hiding in Laren, The Hague, etc. Life before the war; activity in the Mizrachi movement; helping refugees from Europe, marriage in December 1939; German occupation ensues in May 1940; unsuccessful attempts to escape to Britain; escape to a Zionist training facility in Deventer; Jews registered; wearing the yellow star; expulsion from school; dispossession; unde...