Testimony of Prof. David Jakoby Jakobowitz, born in Antwerpen, Belgium, 1928, regarding his experiences in Antwerp, Lyon, Geneva, Adliswil and Celerina

Testimony of Prof. David Jakoby Jakobowitz, born in Antwerpen, Belgium, 1928, regarding his experiences in Antwerp, Lyon, Geneva, Adliswil and Celerina Childhood in Antwerp; his father is a partner of a diamond company; studies at a Jewish elementary school for boys “Jashobeam”. German occupation, 10.05.1940; escape with his family on a train to France; German occupation; back home to the hometown; studies in a French public high school; yellow badges; restrictions; cancellation of food tickets for Jews; beginning of the deportation of the city's Jews to Poland, autumn of 1942; escape with his family by train to France to Paris and Dijon; escape by freight train to Lyon; obtaining forged certificates; smuggling across Switzerland to Geneva; Jewish community; transfer to a refugee camp in Adliswil; studies in a German school; back to parents in Geneva; studies in a public high school; move to Celerina, 1943; studies at a Jewish public institution. The end of the war; return to Antwerpen, 01.08.1945; sailing to Eretz Israel, April 1947; exile by British ships to Cyprus; aliya to Eretz Israel, the end of 1947.