1940: German invasion of Belgium.
Frida was sent to a convent two hours from Brussels and did not understand it.

Lived like a catholic girl with around 35 other little jewish girls.
Parents lived in hiding somewhere else.

Gestapo ́s first visit: sisters hid her in a chapel.

Second visit: They went into the woods.

Third visit: A double agent working for the Gestapo took her to Brussels and left her in front of a house.
Her parents stayed there with a woman whose son was working for the Gestapo.

A woman warned them/her father did not have a good feeling as bounty was paid for the denunciation of jews.
Left for a small village/looking for a place to stay/stayed at a Stable.

Claiming they were refugees from a bombing they arrived in the Ardennes and found a place to stay for a few months.
They shared the food with the family they lived with.

1944: Liberated by the Allies.
Reunion with the family.
Return to Brussels.

Migration to the united states in 1988.

Lest We Forget Washington, D.C. 11-05-2018