Testimony of trudi Volakh Salomons, born in Amsterdam, Holland, in 1929, regarding her deportation to Westerbork and other camps.

Daughter of an orthodox family; German occupation in 1940; denial of rights; rejection of relatives'offer for asylum in Switzerland; birth of her sister in 1943; her mother had the Swiss nationality; her father was Dutch; refusal of the parents to get divorced and their stay together in Holland; obtaining certificates of aliya to Palestine by her father; obtaining passports of Peru by relatives of her mother who lived in Switzerland; arrival at the train station; deportation to Westerbork in July 1943; stay in Westerbork and protecting from deportation thanks to their certificates and passports of Peru; their stay in Westerbork until January 1944; they got sick with diphteria; the family was deported to Bergen Belsen in January 1944 thanks to the protecting documents they had; improvement of the living conditions; the men work in forced labour in a shoe factory; organizing of the youth in the camp; transfer to Biberach camp under the protection of the red cross; liberation by the French in May 1945; recovery in Switzerland; return to Holland; aliya to Israel with the Bnei Akiva in 1951.