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Testimony of Annalie Tal née Loewenbach, born in 1930 in Bentveld, Netherlands, about her experiences as a girl in Bentveld, Haarlem, Bergen-Belsen, Westerbork, etc.

Testimony

Testimony of Annalie Tal née Loewenbach, born in 1930 in Bentveld, Netherlands, about her experiences as a girl in Bentveld, Haarlem, Bergen-Belsen, Westerbork, etc. Childhood life before the war; German occupation ensues in May 1940; antisemitism among the local population surges; expelled from school about a year later; transferred to a Jewish school in Haarlem; father dismissed from work and family dispossessed; evicted to Amsterdam in January 1942; anti-Jewish legislation; evening curfew; Jews registered; the yellow star edict; Jews arrested in the streets; children disappear from the Jewish school;...

File Number : 13395

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Letter by a non-Jew, Frans Knappe from Bloemendaal, to his family in England, with information regarding the experiences of the Jews in the Netherlands and about the attitude of the authorities toward intermarried Jews; letter written, 27 May 1945 Letter written by a non-Jew, Frans Knappe from Bloemendaal, to his family in England, 27 May 1945; letter of testimony regarding the experiences of the Jews in the Netherlands; testimony by Knappe, who is married to a Jewish woman, regarding the attitude of the Nazi authorities toward Jews married to non-Jews who are of Aryan origin; information regarding the plan...

File Number : 8311

Type of Material : Letter of Testimony

Language : English

Testimony of Micha Itzhak Vertheim, born in Rotterdam, the Netherlands in 1942, regarding his experiences as a baby in the home of a member of the Dutch underground in Voorschoten

Testimony of Micha Itzhak Vertheim, born in Rotterdam, the Netherlands in 1942, regarding his experiences as a baby in the home of a member of the Dutch underground in Voorschoten Smuggled by a member of the Dutch underground to the home of Dr. Martinus van der Stoel (later recognized by Yad Vashem as a Righteous among the Nations) in Voorschoten, when the witness was a three month old baby; life in the home of the town's physician; registered in the population registry under the name Michil Martinati; activities by the physician in the Dutch underground; the physician escapes from the house during acts of...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Memoirs of Harry Hoving (pen name Henrique Van Biene), born in Amsterdam in 1924, regarding his experiences in Rotterdam and as a forced laborer in Germany during the Holocaust

Memoirs of Harry Hoving (pen name Henrique Van Biene), born in Amsterdam in 1924, regarding his experiences in Rotterdam and as a forced laborer in Germany during the Holocaust - "The long road": Harry Hoving's autobiography, written and published under the pen name of Henrique Van Biene, with his memoirs of his experiences during and after the Holocaust: His mother - Eveline Van Biene, Jewish, a dancer; his father was not Jewish; son of a single mother; childhood wanderings in Europe with his mother; his mother's marriage to a non-Jew and moving to Rotterdam; manifestations of anti-Semitism in the 1930s;...

File Number : 11548

Type of Material : Memoirs

Language : English

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File Number : 4859

Type of Material : Article, Memoirs, Personal Documents, Speech, Draft, Certification, Identity Card, Letter

Language : Hebrew, Dutch, German

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Testimony

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Sophia Posen née Friedman, born in Amsterdam in 1937; about her experiences in hiding in Amsterdam

Testimony

Testimony of Sophia Posen née Friedman, born in Amsterdam in 1937; about her experiences in hiding in Amsterdam Testimony about childhood in an Orthodox religious family in Amsterday; German occupation ensues in 1940; anti-Jewish laws; collaborators; registering Jews; father and Jewish families deported; concealment of the three children with help from a partner of the witness's father; older brothers remain with the family; witness placed several weeks later with the family of Jannetje and Vilhelm Reek (subsequently recognized as Righteous among the Nations); hunger; cold; dysentery; help from the...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew