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Displaying: 26 – 41 of 41 matches for “the netherlands”
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26. Barbara Ledermann Rodbell describes her reaction to Nazi-mandated schools for Jewish children in Amsterdam
Amsterdam, in the Netherlands. They became friends of Anne Frank and her family. The Germans invaded ... the Netherlands in 1940. Barbara's boyfriend, Manfred, had underground contacts and she got false ... Auschwitz. Barbara survived using her false papers and worked for the resistance. She helped take Jews to
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27. Barbara Ledermann Rodbell describes using false papers and living in hiding
Amsterdam, in the Netherlands. They became friends of Anne Frank and her family ... The Germans invaded the Netherlands in 1940. Barbara's boyfriend ... worked for the resistance. She helped take Jews to hiding places and also hid Jews in an apartment held
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28. Barbara Ledermann Rodbell describes receiving her first set of false papers
Amsterdam, in the Netherlands. They became friends of Anne Frank and her family ... The Germans invaded the Netherlands in 1940. Barbara's boyfriend ... worked for the resistance. She helped take Jews to hiding places and also hid Jews in an apartment held
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29. Selma (Wijnberg) Engel describes deportation to Sobibor
When the Germans invaded the Netherlands in 1940, they confiscated the ... moving first to the Netherlands in 1945, then to Israel in 1951, and finally to the United States in 1957 ... Selma was the youngest of four children born to Jewish parents ... When she was 7, Selma and her family moved to the town of Zwolle where her parents ran a small hotel
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30. "St. Louis" arrives in Antwerp
to Europe, docking at Antwerp. Britain, France, Belgium, and the Netherlands then agreed to accept ... The German ship SS "St. Louis" departed from Hamburg for Cuba with almost 1,000 Jewish refugees ... on board on May 13, 1939. Most of the passengers had Cuban landing certificates. However, the Cuban ... government invalidated the certificates. When the "St. Louis" reached Havana on May 27, most of its
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31. Doriane Kurz describes appell (roll call) in Bergen-Belsen
Amsterdam in 1940, the same year Germany occupied the Netherlands. Her father ... Doriane and her brother hid with gentiles. The three were reunited at Bergen ... the camp's 1945 evacuation, when Doriane was 9. Her mother died of cancer soon after Doriane helped ... her recover from typhus. Doriane and her brother immigrated to the United States.
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32. Jerry von Halle describes restrictions on Jews in Amsterdam
Germans invaded the Netherlands in 1940. In 1941, Jerry's brother perished ... In 1933 Jerry's family moved from Hamburg to Amsterdam. The ... Amsterdam and then in a farmhouse in the south. The Gestapo (German Secret
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33. Jerry von Halle describes hiding in Amsterdam
invaded the Netherlands in 1940. In 1941, Jerry's brother perished in ... In 1933 Jerry's family moved from Hamburg to Amsterdam. The Germans ... Mauthausen. Jerry and his parents went into hiding first in Amsterdam and then in a farmhouse in the south ... The Gestapo (German Secret State Police) arrested Jerry's father in
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34. Jerry von Halle describes hunger while in hiding in Amsterdam
Germans invaded the Netherlands in 1940. In 1941, Jerry's brother perished ... In 1933 Jerry's family moved from Hamburg to Amsterdam. The ... Amsterdam and then in a farmhouse in the south. The Gestapo (German Secret
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35. Doriane Kurz recalls Bergen-Belsen prisoners hauling wagons of corpses
also saw the German occupation of the Netherlands. Her father perished ... The three were reunited at Bergen-Belsen, where they were deported via ... Westerbork. They were liberated during the camp's 1945 evacuation. Doriane's mother died of cancer soon after
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36. Helen (Helene Katz Wohlfarth) Waterford describes giving up her daughter to be sheltered
Netherlands with her husband and young daughter when the Germans invaded in May 1940. Helen and her husband ... Although originally from Germany, Helen was living in the ... places arranged by a friend who was active in the underground. On August 25, 1944, Helen and her husband ... Auschwitz, where they were separated. Helen worked in the I. G. Farben factory in Auschwitz. Helen survived
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37. Liny Pajgin Yollick describes how hiding their Jewish identity saved her family's life in Nice, France
In May 1940, the Germans occupied the Netherlands. In 1942, it ... one of the last trains to cross into Spain after the Germans took over southern France. They boarded a ... Portuguese ship bound for Dutch Guiana (Suriname). Liny was placed in a refugee camp, and then worked in the
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38. Doriane Kurz describes how she and her brother were hidden
also saw the German occupation of the Netherlands. Her father perished ... The three were reunited at Bergen-Belsen, where they were deported via ... Westerbork. They were liberated during the camp's 1945 evacuation. Doriane's mother died of cancer soon after ... Doriane helped her recover from typhus. Doriane and her brother immigrated to the United States.
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39. Liny Pajgin Yollick describes fleeing to France from Antwerp
In May 1940, the Germans occupied the Netherlands. In 1942, it ... one of the last trains to cross into Spain after the Germans took over southern France. They boarded a ... Portuguese ship bound for Dutch Guiana (Suriname). Liny was placed in a refugee camp, and then worked in the
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40. Doriane Kurz describes food rations and conditions in Bergen-Belsen
also saw the German occupation of the Netherlands. Her father perished ... The three were reunited at Bergen-Belsen, where they were deported via ... Westerbork. They were liberated during the camp's 1945 evacuation. Doriane's mother died of cancer soon after ... Doriane helped her recover from typhus. Doriane and her brother immigrated to the United States.
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41. Edward Adler describes arrest and imprisonment in prewar Germany for his relationship with a non-Jewish woman
custody in September 1938 and left Germany. He stayed with relatives in Amsterdam, the Netherlands, and ... Edward was born to a Jewish family in Hamburg. In 1935, the Nuremberg ... was later deported to the Sachsenhausen concentration camp, near Berlin ... later immigrated to the United States.
