Juliette was born in Antwerp. When the war came her family hid Jews from the Nazis. The family was betrayed and split up. Her father was murdered in the Gross-Rosen concentration camp.

Juliette was later arrested but while being transported to Germany she succeeded in escaping and went to her brother in Austria.

At the end of 1943 she was discovered listening to forbidden British radio programmes. She was arrested again. As a political prisoner she was sent to several different concentration camps before finally ending up in Ravensbrück.

She was saved by the White Buses and came to the refugee centre at Malmö Museum. She remembers the museum as being like a hotel and especially the feeling of once again being able to sleep in clean sheets.

After her stay in Malmö she was taken to Pjätteryd, a refugee centre outside Älmhult. Life now began again. Juliette decided to stay in Sweden. She learned Swedish by reading the weekly women’s magazine Hemmets veckotidning.

After her son Paul was born she did not speak Flemish to him. She only told her family about some of the concentration camp brutality about beatings, death and friends who disappeared.