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Letters sent by Robert Lucas Boissevain from Vught and Oranienburg camps to his wife Sonja Tienhoven-Boissevain, 1944, and to his sister Tolly Boissevain-Mesritz, 1945; Russian-Dutch dictionary and exercises written by Lowske Goldberg while hidden by the Boissevain family; Dutch underground placard against anti-Jewish discrimination; documents related to the Goldberg and Boissevain families Letters sent by Robert Lucas Boissevain from the Vught camp and the Oranienburg camp to his wife Sonja Tienhoven-Boissevain in Haarlem, 1944, and to his sister Tolly Boissevain-Mesritz in Geneva, January 1945; a...

File Number : 2233

Type of Material : Poems/songs, Poster, Research Article, Dictionary, Article(s), List(s), Text(s), Newspaper Clippings, Documentary, Genealogy, Letter

Language : English, Russian, Dutch, German

Diaries kept by Rosy (van Geldere) de Vries while in hiding in Velp, 09 December 1943-11 December 1944

Diaries kept by Rosy (van Geldere) de Vries while in hiding in Velp, 09 December 1943-11 December 1944 Also in the file: - A complete transcript of the diaries; - Edition of the "De Vliegende Hollander" newspaper announcing the surrender of Germany, issued 10 May 1945. Note: Rosy (van Geldere) de Vries was born in Rotterdam, the Netherlands, 03 August 1917; her husband, Sigfrid de Vries was born in Rotterdam, 1915; Rosy, Sigrid and their children were in hiding in Velp; at a certain point of the war, their children were entrusted to other people; when the people hiding the children were captured, the...

File Number : 8590

Type of Material : Diary

Language : Dutch

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

Lists of deportees, and testimony submitted in The Hague by a survivor regarding Buchenwald and Dachau camps, dated, 1943-1947

Lists of deportees, and testimony submitted in The Hague by a survivor regarding Buchenwald and Dachau camps, dated, 1943-1947 Testimony submitted to the NIOD in The Hague by survivor G. Zuidhof from Assen, regarding Buchenwald and Dachau camps, dated, 1947; Names of people from the Netherlands who were deported to Dachau and Warsaw during 1943-1944.

File Number : JM/13029

Type of Material : Testimony, List of Deportees

Language : Dutch

Correspondence of Dutch former underground members with Menachem and Mirjam (Waterman) Pinkhof, 1967

Correspondence of Dutch former underground members with Menachem and Mirjam (Waterman) Pinkhof, 1967 The letters, which express the identification of the Dutch people with the State of Israel, are from Katy Mulder and Jackuie Simonis, former underground members.

File Number : 18/6

Type of Material : Letter

Language : Hebrew, Dutch

Testimony of Menno Cohen, born in Amersfoort, the Netherlands, 1936, regarding his and his family's experiences in Amersfoort and in hiding using false identities

Testimony

Testimony of Menno Cohen, born in Amersfoort, the Netherlands, 1936, regarding his and his family's experiences in Amersfoort and in hiding using false identities His childhood; his parents' employment. German occupation and decrees; move to a Jewish kindergarten; his father sets up a network for forging documents; his family wander among the villages using false identities; move of his family to Doetinchem; end of the war. Allied forces air-raids on their house; emotional meeting with a Jewish soldier from the Allied forces; return to Amersfoort after the liberation; identity crises after efforts to...

File Number : 7995

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Moshe Van Zuiden, born in Coevorden, the Netherlands, 1917, regarding his experiences in a Jewish hospital in Apeldoorn and while hidden by a Dutch farmer

Testimony

Testimony of Moshe Van Zuiden, born in Coevorden, the Netherlands, 1917, regarding his experiences in a Jewish hospital in Apeldoorn and while hidden by a Dutch farmer Life before the war. German occupation; dismissal from his work in a post office; move to Apeldoorn; studies and work in a Jewish hospital for the mentally ill, December 1940; escape from the deportation of the Jewish hospital workers, January 1942; return to the hospital; escape with help from the Dutch underground, January 1943; life while hidden by a Dutch farmer; liberation by the Canadian Army, April 1945. Aliya to Eretz Israel...

File Number : 8124

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Yitzhak Kan, born in Coevorden, the Netherlands, 1918, regarding his experiences in hiding in various places in the Netherlands

Testimony

Testimony of Yitzhak Kan, born in Coevorden, the Netherlands, 1918, regarding his experiences in hiding in various places in the Netherlands Life before the war; work in the family's building materials store, 1939. German occupation, May 1940; deportation to a labor camp, August 1942; escape to Hoogeveen before the transfer to Westerbork; hidden by a farmer; life in hiding; leaves the hiding place after being informed on; finds a new hiding place, November 1943; life in hiding; wanderings between various hiding places; hidden by a different farmer. Sets sail in the direction of Eretz Israel on the...

File Number : 8115

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Moshe Nordheim, born in Amsterdam, the Netherlands, 1934, regarding his experiences as a child in Westerbork and Bergen-Belsen

Testimony

Testimony of Moshe Nordheim, born in Amsterdam, the Netherlands, 1934, regarding his experiences as a child in Westerbork and Bergen-Belsen German occupation, 10 May 1940; decrees against Jews; placement of the young children with Christian families with the help of a Dutch female friend from his childhood; dismissal of his father as head of the committee that decides who will be deported to labor camps; deportation to Westerbork, 20 June 1943; camp life; deportation to Bergen-Belsen, 12 January 1944; surgery done with the authorization of an SS physician; evacuation of the "stars" camp, April 1945;...

File Number : 7439

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Shulamit Cynthia Mina Kempe, born in Woudrichem, the Netherlands, 1931, regarding her experiences in S-Hertogenbosch

Testimony

Testimony of Shulamit Cynthia Mina Kempe, born in Woudrichem, the Netherlands, 1931, regarding her experiences in S-Hertogenbosch Her childhood in S-Hertogenbosch. German occupation, May 1940; move to a Jewish school, and anti-Jewish decrees, one year later; deportation of the S-Hertogenbosch Jews, August 1942; receives a deportation deferment due to her father's essential work; escape to a hiding place in Berlicum and hidden by a Christian family several days later; life in one room in a building that had been a small hotel; in hiding in an attic, from autumn 1944; departure from the village with the local...

File Number : 7381

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

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