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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
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 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.
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Anti-Jewish Legislation
Assistance and Rescue
Assistance to Jews
Confiscation of Jewish Property
Confiscation of Property
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Testimony of Martin Jakobs, born in 1920 in Amsterdam, about his experiences in Leiden, in hiding in Amsterdam, in France, in a refugee camp near Lausanne, etc.
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 Testimony of Martin Jakobs, born in 1920 in Amsterdam, about his experiences in Leiden, in hiding in Amsterdam, in France, in a refugee camp near Lausanne, etc. Childhood in a nonreligious family in Amsterdam; attending a public school; active in a Zionist movement; studying physics at the University of Leiden at age sixteen; war breaks out in 1940; continues to study; Jewish lecturers are fired and leave the university; continues to study in Amsterdam until early 1942; Jews placed under restrictions; Jews are concentrated and the witness goes into hiding; escapes to Belgium with his brother; obtains false...
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Aryan Documents
Border Crossing
Escape From Deportation
Forged Documents
Life After the War
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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.
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Assistance and Rescue
Assistance to Jews
Children
Denunciation
Forged Documents
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Testimony of Basha Bonwitt, born in 1939 in Amsterdam, about her experiences as a girl in Amsterdam and in the home of a non-Jewish family in Treebeek
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 Testimony of Basha Bonwitt, born in 1939 in Amsterdam, about her experiences as a girl in Amsterdam and in the home of a non-Jewish family in Treebeek Offspring of immigrants from Poland who had settled in Amsterdam; placed in a home for mentally impaired children that also accommodated Jewish children, apparently in summer 1942; smuggled into the home of a non-Jewish family in Treebeek in early 1943; living openly there; treated excellently by the couple and their extended family; liberated in autumn 1944; life until the end of the war in 1945; difficult parting with the family upon the return of the...
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"she’erith Hapletah"
Assistance to Jews
Children
Children's Homes
Family Relations
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Testimony of Miriam Schnitzer née Goren, born in 1932 in Amsterdam, about her experiences as a girl in Amsterdam and in the homes of non-Jewish families in a village near Brabant, in Groot Ammers, and in Polsbroek
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 Testimony of Miriam Schnitzer née Goren, born in 1932 in Amsterdam, about her experiences as a girl in Amsterdam and in the homes of non-Jewish families in a village near Brabant, in Groot Ammers, and in Polsbroek Life before the war; the only daughter of an affluent nonreligious family; attending a public school; war breaks out in 1940; switching to a Jewish school in 1941; running away from the family home to the home of friends; mother collapses is placed in a hospital; anti-Jewish restrictions escalate; escaping with a friend to a children's home in August 1942; life under conditions of neglect and...
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"she’erith Hapletah"
Assistance to Jews
Children
Children's Homes
Family Relations
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Testimony of Dr. Joseph (Zvi) Haas, born in 1925 in Culemborg, Netherlands, about his experiences in Culemborg, Utrecht, and in various hideouts in the vicinity of Driebergen
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 Testimony of Dr. Joseph (Zvi) Haas, born in 1925 in Culemborg, Netherlands, about his experiences in Culemborg, Utrecht, and in various hideouts in the vicinity of Driebergen Offspring of a traditional family; attends public school; war breaks out in 1940; switches to a Jewish school in Utrecht; anti-Jewish restrictions escalate; attempt to escape to Switzerland fails; family fleet to hiding with a customer of the witness' father in October 1942; family splits up several weeks later; wandering among different families (mainly religious ones) in the vicinity of Driebergen for two and a half years; finding...
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Assistance and Rescue
Assistance to Jews
Escape From Deportation
Life After the War
Reunion With Family Members
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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
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 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.
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Children
Dutch Underground
Family Relations
Forging of Documents
Jewish Organizations
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results.listIds.fileNumber : 13397
results.listIds.typeOfMaterial : Testimony
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Dutch Underground
Family Relations
Jewish Organizations in the Netherlands
Jewish Youth Movements
Rehabilitation of Life After the War
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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.
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 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;...
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Abuse
Anti-Jewish Legislation
Antisemitam - the Netherlands
Badge of Shame
Children
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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
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 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...
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results.listIds.lang : Hebrew
Assistance and Rescue
Assistance to Jews
Children
Family Relations
Help to Jews - the Netherlands
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