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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, Research Article, Letter, Newspaper Clippings, Poster, Dictionary, Documentary, Genealogy, Article(s), List(s), Text(s)

Language : English, Russian, Dutch, German

כוכבא אפריםTestimony of Efraim Ernst Bernard Kokhava van Koeverdan, born in 1943 in Amsterdam, about his experiences as an infant with a non-Jewish neighbor in Amsterdam and his return to an uncle after the war

Information about the family; German occupation ensues in May 1940; witness born in August 1943 in Amsterdam and is immediately handed over to a non-Jewish neighbor; parents find a hideout elsewhere in the area; neighbor's husband keeps a detailed diary about the boy's life and development; parents captured due to denunciation and murdered in April 1945; war ends in May 1945; uncle, a survivor, demands custody of the boy; legal struggle ensues; witness returns to his biological family in 1947; immigration to Eretz Israel in 1979; adjustment to life in Eretz Israel.

File Number : 13544

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

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

Testimony of Annalie Tal née Loewenbach, born in 1930 in Bentveld, Netherlands, about her experiences as a girl in Bentveld, Haarlem, Bergen-Belsen, Westerbork, etc.

Testimony

Testimony of Annalie Tal née Loewenbach, born in 1930 in Bentveld, Netherlands, about her experiences as a girl in Bentveld, Haarlem, Bergen-Belsen, Westerbork, etc. Childhood life before the war; German occupation ensues in May 1940; antisemitism among the local population surges; expelled from school about a year later; transferred to a Jewish school in Haarlem; father dismissed from work and family dispossessed; evicted to Amsterdam in January 1942; anti-Jewish legislation; evening curfew; Jews registered; the yellow star edict; Jews arrested in the streets; children disappear from the Jewish school;...

File Number : 13395

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Documentation regarding the experiences of Andries Hoffmann, Rivka Helena Hoffmann and their family members during the war

Documentation regarding the experiences of Andries Hoffmann, Rivka Helena Hoffmann and their family members during the war Letters sent by Rivka Helena (Van Norden) Hoffmann and by her parents in Westerbork, to her brother Japi and to her husband Andries Hoffmann in Amsterdam; letters from Michael Rudelsheim to his wife Sara, the sister of Andries Hoffmann; The file includes: - a translation of the letters into Hebrew; Note: - Rivka Helena's parents: her father - Jona, son of Yaakov Van Norden; her mother - Chana, daughter of Joseph Arie Bachrach; Murder of her parents in Sobibor camp, 23...

File Number : 1828

Type of Material : Letter, List of Murdered Jews, Memoirs, Documentary

Language : Hebrew, Dutch, German

Testimony of Shlomo Elhanan Tal, born in 1930 in Amsterdam, about his experiences as a boy in Amsterdam, in the Westerbork camp, and in Trobitz

Testimony

Testimony of Shlomo Elhanan Tal, born in 1930 in Amsterdam, about his experiences as a boy in Amsterdam, in the Westerbork camp, and in Trobitz Life before the war; offspring of a Zionist family; German occupation begins in May 1940; unsuccessful attempt to escape to Britain; anti-Jewish legislation; expropriation and Aryanization; the yellow star edict; living in fear of deportatiosn in summer 1942; Jewish schoolchildren gradually disappear; family is deported to Westerbork in January 1944; life in the camp; suffering and hunger; epidemic typhus; younger sister dies in January 1945; mother's physical...

File Number : 13398

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Dina Eva Kimche née Dasberg, born in Haarlem, Netherlands, in 1936, about her experiences as a girl in Haarlem, Amsterdam, Westerbork, Bergen-Belsen, etc

Testimony

Testimony of Dina Eva Kimche née Dasberg, born in Haarlem, Netherlands, in 1936, about her experiences as a girl in Haarlem, Amsterdam, Westerbork, Bergen-Belsen, etc. Life before the war with the extended family; German occupation ensues in May 1940; Dutch Jews concentrated in Amsterdam; deportation with the family to Amsterdam; anti-Jewish legislation; expulsion rom school; Jews banned from public parks and the tram; evening curfew; expropriation; deportation with family to Westerbork in September 1943; sent to Bergen-Belsen; life in the camp; roll calls, epidemic typhus; encounters with father; Torah...

File Number : 13400

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony

Testimony of Katrin (van der Heiden) Polak, born in Leeuwarden, the Netherlands, 1934, regarding her experiences in Leeuwarden, Oisterwijk, in hiding in Heemstede, in hiding while hidden by the Steenbergen family (later recognized as Righteous Among the Nations) and in hiding while hidden by Paulina Ledeboer (later recognized as Righteous Among the Nations) Her childhood in Leeuwarden and Oisterwijk. German Army occupation of the Netherlands, May 1940; confiscation of her father's factory; expulsion from the school in Oisterwijk, 1941; life under German occupation including the obligation regarding...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Sini Cohen, born in 1925 in Amsterdam, about her work at a children's home and the rescue of children in Amsterdam in 1942–1943

Testimony

Oppression of Dutch Jews from 1940 on; concentrating the Jewish population of Amsterdam in a theatre building without basic provisions; separating children from parents; establishing a children's home; witness placed in charge of the children's safety; deportation of Jews to Westerbork; children smuggled out and placed with Dutch families with the help of the Dutch resistance; bribing the Germans with alcohol; persuading parents to place their children in the children's home to save their lives; working with the manager of the children's home, Henriëtte Pimentel; saving the children until 1943; meeting her...

File Number : 13340

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : English

Testimony of Betsie Bausch née Polak, de Leeuw, born in 1919 in Amsterdam, about her experiences in Amsterdam, Deventer, in hiding in Laren, The Hague, etc.

Testimony

Testimony of Betsie Bausch née Polak, de Leeuw, born in 1919 in Amsterdam, about her experiences in Amsterdam, Deventer, in hiding in Laren, The Hague, etc. Life before the war; activity in the Mizrachi movement; helping refugees from Europe, marriage in December 1939; German occupation ensues in May 1940; unsuccessful attempts to escape to Britain; escape to a Zionist training facility in Deventer; Jews registered; wearing the yellow star; expulsion from school; dispossession; underground activity; escaping to Apeldoor in spring 1942; working in a Jewish psychiatric hospital there; arranging hideouts for...

File Number : 13368

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

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