An interview conducted by Mary Dingee Fillmore with Laureen Nussbaum and Hendrika de Vries regarding their experiences in Amsterdam during the Holocaust
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Mary Dingee Fillmore - author of the book "An Address in Amsterdam" - contributes an article to Yad Vashem, with an interview she conducted with Laureen Nussbaum and Hendrika de Vries. Both grew up in Amsterdam and survived in Amsterdam during the war. Both emigrated to the United States. Laureen Nussbaum's family (a Jewish family) survived thanks to German official Hans Calmeyer who...
Documentation of the Luss family from Frankfurt, and the memoirs of Herbert Kruskal regarding his experiences in 1942-1944 (written in Israel in 1944)
Detention of the family on 16 September 1942 and deportation to Westerbork; transfer of the father, 80 years old, to a hospital and his deportation to Westerbork in February 1943; life in the camp; search for ways to be saved; stories of attempts to save Jews in the Netherlands (Weinreb's lists, regarding the activities of Dr. Callmeyer and more); transfer to Bergen Belsen camp in April 1944 as part of an exchange deal; arrival of the prisoners in Eretz Israel...