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Testimony of Mikhael Peter Hendrich Ben Dror Kelman, born in 1941 in Hilversum, Netherlands, about his experiences as an infant in the Amsterdam ghetto, in the Westerbork and Bergen-Belsen camps, and immigration to Eretz Israel as part of a prisoner swap

Parents born in Germany; grandson of the writer Georg Hermann Borchardt; family escapes from Germany to the Netherlands in 1933; grandfather's books burned in Germany; father, Herbert Kelman, escapes; deportation to the Amsterdam ghetto along with mother and grandfather; deportation to Westerbork in 1943; hospitalized in the camp and spared from the transports; grandfather sent to Auschwitz and transferred to Bergen-Belsen; swapping of Templer prisoners from Mandate Palestine; transported to Ere...
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item Id
9848518
First Name
Hendrikh
Mikhael
Piter
Last Name
Ben Dror
Kalman
Date of Birth
13/03/1941
Place of Birth
Hilversum, The Netherlands
Type of material
Testimony
File Number
13546
Language
Hebrew
Record Group
O.3 - Testimonies Department of the Yad Vashem Archives
Date of Creation - earliest
18/04/2012
Date of Creation - latest
18/04/2012
Name of Submitter
בן דרור מיכאל
Original
YES
No. of pages/frames
39
Interview Location
ISRAEL
Form of Testimony
Video