Testimony of Avraam De Jong Yinon, born in Rotterdam, the Netherlands, 1913, regarding his experiences in Amsterdam and Eindhoven

Testimony of Avraam De Jong Yinon, born in Rotterdam, the Netherlands, 1913, regarding his experiences in Amsterdam and Eindhoven Life before the war; religious family; his father was a sexton in a synagogue; move to Amsterdam; activities in a Zionist youth movement; marriage; birth of his daughter. Outbreak of the war; work as a Hebrew teacher; deportation of Jews and detention, 1942; life in detention and then release; finds a hiding place in Nijmegen for his wife and daughter with the help of a priest, 1943; liberation of the southeast Netherlands; escape to the liberated area, 1944. Life in Eindhoven including publication of the Le-Ezrath Ha-Am (Aid for the People) newspaper, from January 1945; publication of information in the newspaper, about Jews who returned to the Netherlands; receives information from the Jewish Agency, the JDC and the Jewish Brigade; activities as the chairman of the Jewish Coordination Committee, 1946; life in Amsterdam including the establishment of Le-Ezrath Ha-Jeled (Aid for the Child), an organization to return Jewish children to the Jewish people; move of children from Eindhoven to Amsterdam under the auspices of the organization; placement of children with the Youth Aliyah organization, and their aliya to Eretz Israel; placement of children with their families in the Netherlands; witness' aliya to Eretz Israel, 1947; work in education.