Josiane Traum: Hiding in a Convent in Brugge

First Person Podcast - A podcast by United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

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Josiane (Josy) Traum discusses her memories of life in hiding at a Carmelite convent in Brugge, Belgium. In 1942, as conditions grew increasingly more dangerous for Jews living in German-occupied Belgium, her mother, Fanny, arranged to have Belgian nuns hide her three-year-old daughter in the convent.