Testimony of Sarah Sala Sylvia (Tzinader) Manes, born in 1930 in Stolberg, Germany, describing her move to Belgium with Kindertransport, and living in hiding places in Belgium

Testimony of Sarah Sylvia (Tzinader) Manes, born in 1930 in Stolberg, Germany Her father immigrated from Galicia; her father's occupation - management of the family grocery store; good relations with the German saleswomen; the closing of the grocery store in 1938; her father's deportation to Poland; transfer of the witness with Kindertransport to her relatives who lived in Belgium, in January 1939; illegal border crossing into Belgium by two of her brothers in 1940; attempted escape to France with the beginning of the German occupation; deportation of her mother to Aachen camp; marched to a transport in 1941; capture of her brothers and their deportation to Brussels in September 1942; the witness goes into hiding with her relatives; premature birth of her aunt’s baby in a hospital; hospitalization of the baby; uncle’s arrest and deportation to Auschwitz; transfer of the witness into hiding with a Christian family for a fee; being informed against; escape from her hiding place; work in a monastery until liberation; learning of the death of family members; joining Bnei Akiva; illegal aliya to Eretz Israel on the ship “The Hebrew Soldier” in 1946.