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Testimony of Esther Grinberg née Boissevain, born in 1934 in Amsterdam, about her parents' and uncles' rescuing of Jews in the Netherlands and the deportation of her father to the camps during the war

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Her parents, Robert and Sonia Boissevain—Righteous among the Nations from Zandvoort, Netherlands; Robert active in the Dutch resistance; moving to Haarlem in 1942; concealing four Jews in their apartment in 1943–1945; uncle establishes an underground bank to finance rescue operations; father arrested by the Gestapo; father deported to the Oranienburg, Vught, and Buchenwald camps; children help to conceal Jews; Germans search; father dies in Buchenwald; Netherlands liberated in May 1945; witness settles in Israel in 1961; parents and uncles recognized as Righteous among the Nations.
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9767775
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Esther
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Grinberg
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Boissevain
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1934
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Amsterdam, The Netherlands
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Testimony
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13537
details.fullDetails.language
Hebrew
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O.3 - Testimonies Department of the Yad Vashem Archives
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16/01/2012
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גרינברג אסתר
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YES
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47
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ISRAEL
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Video
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Moshal Repository, Yad Vashem Archival Collection