Testimony of Miriam Schnitzer née Goren, born in 1932 in Amsterdam, about her experiences as a girl in Amsterdam and in the homes of non-Jewish families in a village near Brabant, in Groot Ammers, and in Polsbroek

Testimony of Miriam Schnitzer née Goren, born in 1932 in Amsterdam, about her experiences as a girl in Amsterdam and in the homes of non-Jewish families in a village near Brabant, in Groot Ammers, and in Polsbroek Life before the war; the only daughter of an affluent nonreligious family; attending a public school; war breaks out in 1940; switching to a Jewish school in 1941; running away from the family home to the home of friends; mother collapses is placed in a hospital; anti-Jewish restrictions escalate; escaping with a friend to a children's home in August 1942; life under conditions of neglect and deprivation; transfer to a Catholic family in a village near Brabant; badly treated and left outdoors most of the time; suspicious about her identity grow in May 1943; transfer to a Protestant family in Groot Ammers; treated well; attends school; switches off with a family in Polsbroek; lives comfortably until the liberation; moves in with her aunt and to a children's home in 1946; immigration to Israel in 1948; adjustment to life in Israel.