Overview
- Interview Summary
- Ruth Bild Adler, born in 1934 in Leipzig, Germany, discusses her family’s escape from Germany to Belgium after Kristallnacht; living in Marneffe, Belgium as stateless refugees; feeing to Brussels as the Nazis approached Marneffe; how her teacher helped place her in hiding in Namur, Belgium in Couvent du Bon Pasteur; her baptism at a Brussels church by a priest who knowingly baptized dozens of Jewish children to save them; her alias name, Monique Lannoy; how no one at the convent knew that she was Jewish; and her reunion with her parents after the war.
- Date
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Recorded:
2011 July 25
- Credit Line
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, Gift of Karen Adler Feeley and Ruth Bild Adler
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Keywords & Subjects
- Topical Term
- Baptism. Convents--Belgium--Namur. Hidden children (Holocaust)--Belgium. Hiding places--Belgium--Brussels. Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Personal narratives. Jewish children in the Holocaust. Jewish children--Belgium. Jewish refugees--Belgium. Jews--Germany--Leipzig. Jews--Migrations. Jews, German--Belgium. Kristallnacht, 1938. Passing (Identity) Women--Personal narratives. World War, 1939-1945--Children--Belgium. World War, 1939-1945--Jews--Rescue--Belgium. World War, 1939-1945--Refugees.
- Geographic Name
- Belgium--Emigration and immigration. Belgium--History--German occupation, 1940-1945. Brussels (Belgium) Leipzig (Germany) Marneffe (Belgium) Namur (Belgium)
- Personal Name
- Adler, Ruth Bild, 1934-
Administrative Notes
- Legal Status
- Permanent Collection
- Provenance
- Karen Adler Feeley and Ruth Bild Adler donated Ruth Bild Adler's presentation to Chabad synagogue members in Cranbury, NJ to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in March 2021.
- Special Collection
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The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
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- 2023-11-16 10:09:20
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