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K.J. Dijkstra

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15 Apr

(1/9) After Bergen-Belsen was liberated on 15-04-1945, photographer George Rodger took this picture. A picture of a young boy walking along dead people, looking averted. For many years it was thought this was a German boy who walked carelessly past the corpses.

(2/9) But it was Dutch Jewish boy Sieg Maandag, born 24-08-1937 in Amsterdam. He is the son of Isaäc, who worked at the diamond exchange, born 14-05-1912 and Keetje nee Groen. He had a younger sister, Henneke, born 30-12-1938. Sieg was only 5 when he was deported.😢

(3/9) They probably arrived on 05-05-1943 in #Westerbork.
On 01-02-1944 they were all moved to Bergen Belsen 📷concentration camp. 10 months later, on 04-12-1944, Isaäc was deported to concentration camp Sachsenhausen and the next day Keetje was deported to Neuengamme camp.

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K.J. Dijkstra

@shannara77

13 Apr

(1/6) On my daily walk I just 'stumbled' over 2 new Stolpersteine here in Gouda.
The first is Basia (Basje) Austeiczer-Udler. She was born on 15-09-1872 in Kosmin (Poland) and was married to Max Austeiczer, born 22-07-1870 in Starokonstantinov (now Ukraine) who died in 1932.

(2/6) They had 2 daughters. Berta, born 25-07-1898 and Schrifa, born 06-07-1896. Both were born in Starokonstantinov.
In 1910 the family came to Rotterdam and lived there on several places. Schrifa, died 23-05-1935.
In 1943 Basje and Berta lived in Gouda.

(3/6) Berta was a lawyer and attorney.
Basje probably was in #Westerbork from 25-03-1943. Berta survived the war and maybe she tried to help her mother via her job. On Basjes Jewish Council Card(s) it says that the vice president of the Rotterdam court tried to get her on the...

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K.J. Dijkstra

@shannara77

12 Apr

(1/4) On 12-04-1934 Jacob Groenteman was born.
Today he could have been 87 years old...
He is the son of Abraham, born 18-10-1910 and Marie Anna nee van der Goen, born 22-03-1910.
Jacob had a little sister Rosina, born 30-09-1936.

(2/4) They used to live in Amsterdam in the Jodenbreestraat 62 (📷1909). It was a lively straat where many Jews lived. It was in the middle of the so called "JUDENVIERTEL"
In 1944 most of the Jews were deported (killed😢) and the houses in the Jodenbreestraat were empty.

(3/4) Especially in the winter of 1944-1945, the so called 'hongerwinter' literally 'hunger winter' everything what could be burned was taken from the houses. After the war many of the dilapidated houses were demolished. So the street as it was before the war does no longer exist

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K.J. Dijkstra

@shannara77

28 Mar

(1/5) 27-03-1926 Salomon Albert Izaks was born in Woerden. He was the son of Eliazar, born 01-10-1897 and Henriette nee Glaser, born 03-11-1894. He had 3 siblings:
> Gerson, born 28-03-1925 (18)
> Saartje Henriette, born 23-11-1929 (13)
> David Eduard, born 14-04-1933 (10)

(2/5) Eliazar had a butchery in Woerden. The Izaks family was completely assimilated, given that Izaks and his father ran an "electric beef, veal and pork butcher shop" at in Woerden, where Eliazar also lived with his family and his parents.

(3/5) This family picture was made shortly before they went to camp Vught. They were in Vught from 22-04-1943. On 07-06-1943 Henriette was deported with the 2 youngest children to #Westerbork. The next day they were deported to #Sobibor where they arrive on 11-06-1943.

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K.J. Dijkstra

@shannara77

27 Mar

(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.

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K.J. Dijkstra

@shannara77

26 Mar

(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.

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