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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 : List of Murdered Jews, Documentary, Letter, Memoirs

Language : Hebrew, Dutch, German

Testimony of Asher Hoffmann, born in Amsterdam, the Netherlands, 1918, regarding his experiences in the underground, Westerbork, Sobibor and in hiding in Bussum

Testimony

Testimony of Asher Hoffmann, born in Amsterdam, the Netherlands, 1918, regarding his experiences in the underground, Westerbork, Sobibor and in hiding in Bussum Life before the war. German occupation, 1940; contacts with the Dutch underground; activities connected to obtaining forged documents; deportation to Westerbork; transfer to Sobibor; escape to Bussum; life hidden by a Dutch family; liberation, 1945. Aliya to Israel, 1948.

File Number : 2696

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

A letter from Helene Leni Hoffmann to the van Norden family in the Westerbork camp, 1943, and documentation of the Hoffmann family from Amsterdam

- Letters from the Jewish Agency in Eretz Israel and the Judenrat in Amsterdam to Helene Hoffmann in Amsterdam, 1943, about adding her name to an exchange list for aliya to Eretz Israel; - Postcard of Jonas van Norden in Amsterdam to Herbert Bachrach in Hørsholm, Denmark, 1943; Also in the file: - Documentation of Andries Asher Hoffmann, his wife Helene, including her forged identity card in the name of Petronella van der Velde, born in Amsterdam in 1916 and 1918 and their family issued in Amsterdam and Rotterdam before, during and after the war; - Memoirs and letter regarding the hiding of Andries and...

File Number : 5401

Type of Material : Identity Card, כתובה, Postcard, Memoirs, Personal Documents, Letter, Birth Certificate, Newspaper Clippings, Calendar

Language : Hebrew, English, Dutch, Aramaic