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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

Testimony
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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 Eretz Israel by train via Turkey in June 1944; received by Kibbutz Sede Nehemia.
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9848518
details.fullDetails.firstName
Hendrikh
Mikhael
Piter
details.fullDetails.lastName
Ben Dror
Kalman
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13/03/1941
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Hilversum, The Netherlands
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Testimony
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13546
details.fullDetails.language
Hebrew
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O.3 - Testimonies Department of the Yad Vashem Archives
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18/04/2012
details.fullDetails.latestDate
18/04/2012
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בן דרור מיכאל
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YES
details.fullDetails.numOfPages
39
details.fullDetails.interviewLocation
ISRAEL
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Video
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Moshal Repository, Yad Vashem Archival Collection