Testimony of Ben Monnikendam Hulata, born in Amsterdam, the Netherlands, 1925, regarding his experiences in Amsterdam, in hiding in Beltrum, and in hiding in Varsseveld while hidden by the Colenbrander family (Righteous Among the Nations)

Testimony of Ben Monnikendam Hulata, born in Amsterdam, the Netherlands, 1925, regarding his experiences in Amsterdam, in hiding in Beltrum, and in hiding in Varsseveld while hidden by the Colenbrander family (Righteous Among the Nations) His childhood in a secular family. German Army occupation of Amsterdam, May 1940; life under German occupation including the revocation of rights; his father's labor sewing boots for the German Army; receipt of a certificate as an essential worker [his father?]; deportation of his brother to Mauthausen; receives notice regarding the death of his brother, September 1941; receives an offer of a hiding place by the Dutch underground; refusal by his parents to go in hiding; payment for a hiding place in Beltrum for the witness and his brother; deportation of his parents to Auschwitz, 1943; in hiding while hidden along with other Jews on the farm of the Colenbrander family (later recognized as Righteous Among the Nations) in Varsseveld. Aliya to Eretz Israel, February 1946.