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Elimelech Solomon Abel Weinreb

Testimony
A family of six children in 's-Gravenhage; a Jewish community in the city; religion and belief; the father is a teacher in an elementary school; German occupation of the Netherlands in 1940; movement restrictions in 1942; deportation of some of the relatives; termination of the father's work as a teacher; father’s ties with Dutch underground; preparation of hiding places for Jews by the father; birth of the witness; arrest of the father and other members of the underground; deportation with the family to Westerbork in 1943; death of the brother; escape of the family from the camp with the help of an underground man; hiding in Amersfoort area with a local family under a false identity; wandering; living as a refugee from Belgium in a local peasant family under a false identity, with fake documents in the Willems Pirenne surname; liberation by Canadian Army soldiers; entrance to a Jewish children's home; reunion with parents; move to Switzerland; aliya to Israel in 1969.
item Id
11690460
First Name
Abel
Elimelech
Solomon
Last Name
Weinreb
Date of Birth
10/1942
Place of Birth
'S Gravenhage, The Netherlands
Type of material
Testimony
Language
Hebrew
Record Group
O.3 - Testimonies Department of the Yad Vashem Archives
Date of Creation - earliest
28/06/2015
Date of Creation - latest
28/06/2015
Name of Submitter
ויינרב אלימלך סולומון אבל
Original
YES
Interview Location
ISRAEL
Connected to Item
O.3 - Testimonies gathered by Yad Vashem
Form of Testimony
Video