Testimony of Yocheved Guli (Brutzki) Grinblat, born in Brussels, Belgium in 1930, regarding her experiences as a child in Brussels, in Agde camp, in a dormitory in Chateau de Bassines, in hiding in the Ardennes area, and in other places

Testimony of Yocheved Guli (Brutzki) Grinblat, born in Brussels, Belgium in 1930, regarding her experiences as a child in Brussels, in Agde camp, in a dormitory in Chateau de Bassines, in hiding in the Ardennes area, and in other places Life before the war; Orthodox, religious family; death of her father; Wehrmacht invasion of Belgium on 10 May 1940; escape to Revel with her mother and sisters; devious concentration of the Jews who are there, by the mayor; deportation to Agde with the Jews; escape from the camp to Brussels with her mother and sisters; life in Brussels, under curfew; marking of Jewish owned stores in September 1942; transfer to a dormitory in Chateau de Bassines, management of the dormitory by Cougnet (later recognized by Yad Vashem as a Righteous Among the Nations); Jewish children and members of the underground stay in the dormitory; weapons are hidden in the dormitory; raid by the Germans on the dormitory, following informings; selection of Jewish children and staff members; she meets a teacher from the dormitory, and is transferred to his parents' home in Villers le Bouillet; life in the home of the Gathy family ((later recognized by Yad Vashem as Righteous Among the Nations); the family escapes from the home, after being informed on; wanderings in the Ardennes area with the family's father, until the end of the war; return to Brussels in September 1944; life after the war; aliya to Israel in 2005; absorption.