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File Number : 4879

Type of Material : Personal Documents, Certification, Letter, Passport, Official Documentation, Medical Documentation

Language : Hebrew, English, Dutch, German

Testimony of Bram Wijler, born in 1939 in Rotterdam, Netherlands, about his experiences in hiding in the Netherlands

Testimony of Bram Wijler, born in 1939 in Rotterdam, Netherlands, about his experiences in hiding in the Netherlands Childhood; family escapes to Deventer in 1940; witness removed by the Dutch resistance at age 1.5; moved among seven hideouts; finds hiding along with seven additional families with the widow Louise Mulder van Marle (subsequently recognized as Righteous amng the Nations); witness told by van Marle that she must leave the home; the campaign for Normandy in 1944; witness reunited with parents; poor adjustment in parents' home; placed in a residence in Amsterdam at age ten; maintains connection...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Hannah (Van Den Bergh) Friedman, born in 1939 in Scheveningen, Netherlands, about her escape from the Netherlands and her experiences in Belgium

Testimony of Hannah (Van Den Bergh) Friedman, born in 1939 in Scheveningen, Netherlands, about her escape from the Netherlands and her experiences in Belgium Family life; witness escapes with father, mother, and sister to Brussels in 1941; life in a hotel; Germans invade and search for American pilots who bailed out in the area; witness and cousin placed in hiding with a neighbor; parents and materal aunt arrested; deported to Malines; deported to Auschwitz and murdered there; contact maintained with Andrée Morison, a businesswoman associated with the Belgian resistance; witness and cousin taken to the...

File Number : 14389

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Sadie (Rurka) Hofstein, born in London, England, regarding her experiences as a volunteer for the Jewish Committee for Relief Abroad organization in Rotterdam and in Bergen-Belsen camp during 1944-1945 She volunteers for the Jewish Committee for Relief Abroad (JCRA) in 1944; training at the JCRA; she is sent to the Netherlands in autumn 1944; her impressions of Antwerp, which was destroyed; move to Brussels; move to the village of Hrava (?); arrival to the village on 08 May 1945; murder of the collaborators in the village; move to Rotterdam; situation in the city of Rotterdam after the war;...

File Number : 11326

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : English

Letters, postcards, diaries and personal documents of members of the Rosenbaum and Zion families from Eibergen and Amsterdam, during the Holocaust period

Letters, postcards, diaries and personal documents of members of the Rosenbaum and Zion families from Eibergen and Amsterdam, during the Holocaust period - Notebook transferred between the Zion siblings (who lived in hiding in various places) and which was used as a means of contact between them, 1944, in Dutch and English; - Letters sent by Pista (by means of Istvan Balint) from Boekelo to Mientje (his fiancée Wilhelmina Esther Zion), 05-09/1942; - Last postcards sent to Wilhelmina Esther Zion by means of Istvan Balint, from Zwolle on 27/03/1943 and from Westerbork camp on 06/04/1943; - Letter sent by...

File Number : 3364

Type of Material : Postcard, Correspondence, Certification, Personal Documents, Identity Card, Letter, Diploma, Poem/song, Notebook, Diary, Declaration

Language : English, Dutch