Testimony of Grace Heimans, born in 1939 in Amsterdam, about her experiences as a girl in hiding in Amsterdam and in a village in the Drogeham area

Testimony of Grace Heimans, born in 1939 in Amsterdam, about her experiences as a girl in hiding in Amsterdam and in a village in the Drogeham area Life before the war; German occupation ensues in May 1940; father is deported to Auschwitz in August 1942; most of family is deported to Westerbork; they are murdered in the Sobibór cmap in 1943; separation from mother, who is hiding elsewhere; a month and a half later, smuggled to a hideout in the Friesland region with the help of a member of the Dutch resistance; life in hiding with the Nicolai family in a village near Drogeham; information about contacting the concealing family; attending church; liberation by Canadian forces in April 1945; traumatic parting with the concealing family; recovery with mother in Amsterdam; life after the war; immigration to Israel in 1961.