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Testimony of Rivka van Coevorden née van Amstel, born in 1924 in Coevorden, Netherlands, about her experiences in Amsterdam and in hiding in the Netherlands during the war

Testimony

Life before the war; offspring of a family that had lived in the Netherlands since 1400; moving to Amsterdam in 1938; war breaks out in 1940; deportation to a labor camp; escape; assigned to farm labor; marries and gives birth to a daughter; hiding in various places; liberation; reunited with daughter; life after the war; immigration to Israel in 1951; adjustment to life in Israel.

File Number : 13536

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

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

Language : English, Russian, Dutch, German

Personal documentation belonging to Aron Velleman, born in Rotterdam, the Netherlands, 10 April 1907, including a thank you letter from Prince Bernhard, 1945

Personal documentation belonging to Aron Velleman, born in Rotterdam, the Netherlands, 10 April 1907, including a thank you letter from Prince Bernhard, 1945 - Forged identity card in the name of Arie Katwijk prepared for Aron Velleman from Rotterdam, place and date of issue: Tilburg, 07 October 1943; - Forced document in the name of Henriette de With prepared for Henriette Velleman (wife of Aron Velleman) from Rotterdam, place and date of issue: Tilburg, 07 October 1943; -Letter from the Employment Bureau in Rotterdam certifying that Arie Katwijk was examined by a physician and was found to be unfit...

File Number : 144

Type of Material : Personal Documents, Vouchers, Official Documentation, Genealogy

Language : English, Dutch, German

Testimony of Nehama May Margolin Alsace, born in Voorburg, the Netherlands, 1941, regarding her hiding place with a Dutch family in The Hague during the war

Testimony

Testimony of Nehama May Margolin Alsace, born in Voorburg, the Netherlands, 1941, regarding her hiding place with a Dutch family in The Hague during the war Childhood in a religious family; her father's work in a parchment paper factory; parental acquaintance with Borculo; her mother's origin is Hague; move of her family to the suburb of Hague, to Voorburg. German occupation, 1940; birth of the witness, April 1941; deportation of Jewish men, 1942; decision on immigration to South America; obtaining documents for immigration; witness disease in kidney disease; cancellation of immigration plans; giving the...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : English

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

Testimony of Esther Grinberg née Boissevain, born in 1934 in Amsterdam, about her parents' and uncles' rescuing of Jews in the Netherlands and the deportation of her father to the camps during the war

Her parents, Robert and Sonia Boissevain—Righteous among the Nations from Zandvoort, Netherlands; Robert active in the Dutch resistance; moving to Haarlem in 1942; concealing four Jews in their apartment in 1943–1945; uncle establishes an underground bank to finance rescue operations; father arrested by the Gestapo; father deported to the Oranienburg, Vught, and Buchenwald camps; children help to conceal Jews; Germans search; father dies in Buchenwald; Netherlands liberated in May 1945; witness settles in Israel in 1961; parents and uncles recognized as Righteous among the Nations.

File Number : 13537

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Letters written by members of the Jourgrau family, and personal documentation regarding members of the family, 1927-2009

Letters written by members of the Jourgrau family, and personal documentation regarding members of the family, 1927-2009 Letters and postcards: - Letter from Dov Jourgrau in Amsterdam to his brother Mendel Jourgrau in Eretz Israel, 23 December 1938; - Letters and a postcard written by Dov Jourgrau to his daughter, Ruth, while she was in hiding using the false identity of Lieske or Liesje; members of the underground showed these letters to Ruth and then took them back as a precaution; at the end of the war, the letters were returned to her; - Two letters from Lea Jourgrau (apparently from Westerbork)...

File Number : 2063

Type of Material : Personal Documents, Article(s), List(s), Text(s), Poem/song, Drawing, Letter, Notebook, Postcard

Language : Hebrew, English, Dutch, German, Yiddish

Testimony of Alexander Grootman van der Knopp, born in 1939 in Amsterdam, about his experiences as a boy under a false identity with a non-Jewish Dutch family in Amsterdam

Testimony

Testimony of Alexander Grootman van der Knopp, born in 1939 in Amsterdam, about his experiences as a boy under a false identity with a non-Jewish Dutch family in Amsterdam Life in Amsterdam at the beginning of the German occupation in 1940; placement with a non-Jewish Dutch couple (evidently in 1941); life under a false identity as the van der Knopps' son until the end of the war in 1045; placement in the Beit Dina Jewish orphanage in Sant Port in 1946; joiing a family that holds “certificates” (Mandate Palestine immigration visas); immigration to Eretz Israel in 1947.

File Number : 13396

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

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File Number : 13397

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Special edition of the "Vry Nederland" newspaper in honor of the liberation, illustrated with the Dutch flag and the poem/song, "Wij zijn vrij (We Are Free)" on the opening page, 1945

File Number : 140

Type of Material : Newspaper

Language : Dutch

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