Testimony of Barbara Houminer, born in Overschie, the Netherlands in 1938, regarding her family’s life in Zaandam living under an assumed Dutch identity during the Nazi occupation

Testimony of Barbara Houminer, born in Overschie, the Netherlands in 1938, regarding her family’s life in Zaandam living under an assumed Dutch identity during the Nazi occupation Family’s move from Germany to the Netherlands; childhood in Overschie; father’s arrest by the Dutch police in 1939 due to his German citizenship; father’s release; move to Zaandam in 1940; the German occupation; in 1942, a Dutch Christian named Bob Stelleman, who was deputy mayor and a friend of the family, hid the family’s identity papers that showed them to be Jews; her disabled aunt hid in the home of the priest Dominic Dykstra in the old church in Amsterdam; life under the Nazi occupation using a fictitious Dutch identity; aerial bombing raids; birth of her younger brother; family’s assisting of inmates detained in the Westerbork camp; mother’s work in the Dutch underground distributing posters and newspapers; hunger; father’s participation in the Albrecht espionage group and his work for the British in 1944; liberation by the Canadians in 1945; rehabilitation of life after the war; move to Baarn; birth of another brother in 1948; studying textile design in Amsterdam in 1957; move to work in Copenhagen, Denmark in 1962; marriage in 1963; move to Israel in 1965.