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

Language : English, Russian, Dutch, German

Correspondence between the Gross family in Eretz Israel and family in Amstelveen through the Red Cross, 1941-1943; letters sent to Szymon Benno Wind in Westerbork from Vught camp and Amstelveen, 1944; letter from a Polish Army soldier regarding meeting Szymon Benno in Westerbork and the fate of his wife Rosa (Gross) Wind, 1945; personal documentation of Szymon Benno during the war and afterwards Correspondence between the Gross family in Eretz Israel and the family in Amstelveen through the Red Cross, 1941-1943; letters sent from the Vught camp and Amstelveen to Szymon Benno Wind in Westerbork, 1944; letter...

File Number : 2225

Type of Material : Personal Documents, Letter, Red Cross Letter, Article(s), List(s), Text(s), Postcard

Language : Hebrew, English, Dutch, German

Personal documentation of Avraham and Mirl Heller, 1938-1946

Personal documentation of Avraham and Mirl Heller, 1938-1946 - Diary written by Avraham Heller, born in Rotterdam, the Netherlands, 12 February 1919, written 24 January 1938-30 July 1944; letter written by Avraham to his daughter, Yael, 21 January 1944; description of the war and the disaster that struck the Jews of Europe; copying over of letters in German that were written in 1938; list of members of Kibbutz Sde Eliahu, prepared, June 1944; the final entry, on the 10th anniversary of his aliya to Eretz Israel, written on 30 July 1944; - Letter and telegram sent by Josef Herbstmann from Manchester to...

File Number : 8530

Type of Material : Official Documentation, Diary, Article(s), List(s), Text(s), Letter, Personal Documents, Telegram

Language : Hebrew, English, 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

Letter sent by Jenny and Hermann Wagenberg, born in Germany, to Max Stern, Jenny's brother in Eretz Israel, on 27 January 1945, containing their experiences in the Netherlands, 1942-1944

Letter sent by Jenny and Hermann Wagenberg, born in Germany, to Max Stern, Jenny's brother in Eretz Israel, on 27 January 1945, with their experiences in the Netherlands, 1942-1944 Deportation from their home in Bussum to the Asterdorp neighborhood in Amsterdam; concentration in the Asterdorp neighborhood of the Jews who were deported from their homes in the Netherlands; transfer to De Hollandsche Schouwburg where the Jews were assembled prior to their deportation to the camps; non-Jewish Dutch people find a hiding place for Jenny and Hermann Wagenberg; being hidden by farmers in a farm near Zutphen; life in...

File Number : 9957

Type of Material : Letter, Memoirs

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 Grace Heimans, born in 1939 in Amsterdam, about her experiences as a girl in hiding in Amsterdam and in a village in the Drogeham area

Testimony

Testimony of Grace Heimans, born in 1939 in Amsterdam, about her experiences as a girl in hiding in Amsterdam and in a village in the Drogeham area Life before the war; German occupation ensues in May 1940; father is deported to Auschwitz in August 1942; most of family is deported to Westerbork; they are murdered in the Sobibór cmap in 1943; separation from mother, who is hiding elsewhere; a month and a half later, smuggled to a hideout in the Friesland region with the help of a member of the Dutch resistance; life in hiding with the Nicolai family in a village near Drogeham; information about contacting the...

File Number : 13394

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Miriam (De Han) Aldobi, born in Amsterdam, the Netherlands, 1938, regarding her experiences in Amsterdam and Rotterdam using a false identity

Testimony of Miriam (De Han) Aldobi, born in Amsterdam, the Netherlands, 1938, regarding her experiences in Amsterdam and Rotterdam using a false identity Life with her parents in Amsterdam until 1942; life in Rotterdam using a false identity and living with a foster family.

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Memoirs of Martin Ernest Hertz, born in Sittard, the Netherlands, 1893, written in 1945, and memoirs of his son, Jacques, born in Rotterdam and his daughter-in-law, Maja Frankenhuis, born in Enschede, written in 2003, regarding their experiences before, during and after the war Martin Ernest Hertz Martin's family's life in Hilligersberg before the war. Deportation to Rotterdam, 1942; in hiding in Lunteren; in hiding in Ede; in hiding in Schiedam; in hiding in Voorthuizen; writing his memoirs while in hiding in Voorthuizen; help from the Nachtegaal family, who were Dutch, in finding hiding...

File Number : 8218

Type of Material : Memoirs

Language : Hebrew, Dutch

Memoirs of Rose Judy (Van Gelder) De Liema, born in The Hague, the Netherlands, 1921, regarding her experiences in hiding in The Hague and Liebau

Memoirs of Rose Judy (Van Gelder) De Liema, born in The Hague, the Netherlands, 1921, regarding her experiences in hiding in The Hague and Liebau "So You Will Remember": Life in The Hague under the German occupation; life in hiding, April 1943-August 1944; life in the Liebau camp, from 29 October 1944; end of the war.

File Number : 8035

Type of Material : Memoirs

Language : English

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