כוכבא אפריםTestimony of Efraim Ernst Bernard Kokhava van Koeverdan, born in 1943 in Amsterdam, about his experiences as an infant with a non-Jewish neighbor in Amsterdam and his return to an uncle after the war
כוכבא אפריםTestimony of Efraim Ernst Bernard Kokhava van Koeverdan, born in 1943 in Amsterdam, about his experiences as an infant with a non-Jewish neighbor in Amsterdam and his return to an uncle after the war
Testimony
Information about the family; German occupation ensues in May 1940; witness born in August 1943 in Amsterdam and is immediately handed over to a non-Jewish neighbor; parents find a hideout elsewhere in the area; neighbor's husband keeps a detailed diary about the boy's life and development; parents captured due to denunciation and murdered in April 1945; war ends in May 1945; uncle, a survivor, demands custody of the boy; legal struggle ensues; witness returns to his biological family in 1947; immigration to Eretz Israel in 1979; adjustment to life in Eretz Israel.
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item Id
9814897
First Name
Bernard
Efraim
Ernst
Last Name
Kokhava
van Coevorden
Date of Birth
13/08/1943
Place of Birth
Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Type of material
Testimony
File Number
13544
Language
Hebrew
Record Group
O.3 - Testimonies Department of the Yad Vashem Archives