(1/4) 87 years ago the twins Betsie and Clementine Acathan were born in Amsterdam on 25-03-1924. They were the daughters of Abraham, born 10-05-1888 and Henriette Acathan nee Monnickendam, born 29-05-1889.
Abraham and Henriette had 21 children.
(2/4) Some children died at a young age before the war. Four children survived the war.
These children did not:
> Betsie (19)
> Clementine (19)
> David📷, born 23-03-1919 (24)
> Dora, born 09-10-1920 (24)
> Samuel📷, born 20-09-1921 (20)
> Gabriel, born 25-02-1923 (19)
...
(3/4) and:
> Branca, born 15-01-1926 (16)
> Henriette, born 30-07-1927 (15)*
> Daniel, born 18-06-1929 (13)*
> Jeannette Catharina, born 11-10-1930 (12)*
> Augusta, born 26-11-1931 (11)*
> Haïm, born 14-12-1932 (10)*
*-These children and Parents killed in Auschwitz 26-02-1943😢
(4/4) The twin sisters were killed in Sobibor on 31-10-1943.
Dora died 28-02-1945 in Central Europe and the others on other dates in Auschwitz or Sobibor.
So, 14 members of the Acathan family were killed.😢
The 📷 was taken in 1934.
We will remember all of you!😢💔🕯️✡️
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(1/9) When an Utrecht student, Adriaantje (Ad) Groenendijk, witnesess the first raids on Jews in Amsterdam she 'finds' 4 Jewish toddlers in the street who've been left alone.😢
Their parents were deported. Ad takes the children with her to Utrecht.
(2/9) She brings them to the house of the parents of classmate Jan Meulenbelt. The children could not stay there so Jan asks other students for help to find a safe place for the children. This is the start of a resistance group which helps hiding Jewish children.
(3/9) After the war the group was called 'het Utrechtse Kindercomité' (the Utrecht children committee).
At first they think it's quite harmless as they are only helping children. But the Nazis obviously didn't agree.
(1/7) Elias Bloemkoper could have celebrated his 86th birthday. He was born 26-03-1935 as the son of Victor Ephraim, 18-08-1909 and Jetje, 07-05-1910. Elias had 3 siblings:
> Jacob, born 22-04-1934
> Roza Marianne, born 06-10-1936
> Abraham, 04-09-1938
They lived in Leiden.
(2/7) Victor was cantor and religious teacher. The first year of the war life was quite normal. The children played with the other children in the street, but in 1941 it started to change. The children had to leave their own school.
(3/7) More and more things became forbidden for Jews. Early 1942 Elias drew this drawing of children in the playground.
He wrote on it "Voor Jooden verbooden" or "forbidden for Jews".😢
In the spring of 1943 they were advised to go into hiding.