Testimony of Max Van Dam, born in Amsterdam, the Netherlands, 1939, regarding his experiences in hiding with a Dutch family in Melderslo

Testimony of Max Van Dam, born in Amsterdam, the Netherlands,1939, regarding his experiences in hiding with a Dutch family in Melderslo Childhood in Amsterdam under the German occupation with Simon and Corry Loonstein after the deportation of the witness's single mother to Westerbork in 1942; transfer into hiding with the Mulder family, a Dutch Catholic family in Melserslo, Limburg province in 1943, with the help of the student organization of the Dutch underground; living in hiding under a false identity; shelling and air-raids in 1944; liberation by the Canadian army in 1944; return to his adoptive parents, the Loonstein family, in Amsterdam in 1945; rehabilitation of life after the war; move to Zandvoort in 1955; aliya to Israel in 1997; absorption.