Rosalie Lamet: " I am one lucky girl. I write in my book that it should never happen again and that it should be told about so that we will not repeat the horrors and terrors". Antwerp, Belgium, the city where I was born, was known as the City of Diamonds. My father was a citizen of Belgium and a diamond dealer who died when I was eleven. During the war, my mother, sister, and brother were deported and died. I knew French very well, and, using what I had of ingenuity, determination, arrogance, and beauty, I was able to escape to Vichy, France. In France, I again escaped the Gestapo by denying that I was Jewish. I was smuggled into Switzerland, which became my “Alpine Oasis.” I lived out the rest of the war hidden in Switzerland. I will be forever indebted to the Swiss for my survival. My brothers in New York arranged my passage to America in 1946. I married here and raised a daughter and son. Eventually, I registered for college, taking writing courses at Columbia University. I published two books, City of Diamonds and Alpine Oasis, about the courage it took to survive. After suffering through the many years of the Nazi regime, I understood the need to provide assistance for those in need. I started Lamet Hall in Israel to do just that. At Lamet Hall, people who might not be otherwise able to afford such accommodations are welcome to organize and celebrate bar mitzvahs, weddings, and the important times in their lives. I continue to practice orthodoxy. I am a proud grandmother and great-grandmother. I hope to return to Antwerp, my birthplace, where my granddaughter is a physician.