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Aug 18

Imagine how Ellen and her husband Ben must have felt during their transport to #Sobibor of June 8, 1943? They were parents of a 3-month-old baby who was taken away by the neighbor just minutes before their arrest on May 26, 1943. Ellen and Ben were deported to Sobibor without their daughter on the so-called children's transport. Tsiwja survived as Carla. At Carla's (@Tsiwja) request, we share the story of her murdered birth parents in a thread 🧵👇🏼1/11

2/11 Ellen was born in Amsterdam, as the daughter of Herman Sanders and Sara Maijkels. She lived in her childhood with her twin sister Vera and her younger sister Henny (1923) in De Lairessestraat in Amsterdam. In 1931 the family moved to Groningen due to her father's work. After her final exams, she returned to Amsterdam in 1938 to study at the “school for social work” in the Pieter de Hoochstraat.

3/11 Herman Sanders was born in Wildervank and after finishing his studies he worked at the Polak company in Groningen. Polak is the inventor of the lemonade syrup Ranja. In 1901 he became a representative for the company in Amsterdam and from 1916 he was a member of the board of directors. Herman married Sara Maijkels on June 26, 1917. They had three daughters.
At the end of 1931, shortly after his sixtieth birthday, David Polak retired from the daily management of the company. Herman Sanders was director after this until December 31, 1940, when he was forced to resign by the Germans.
Herman held many administrative positions during his professional life. In Groningen the family lived in the Midsummer villa on Verlengde Hereweg.
Herman, Sara and their youngest daughter Henny were murdered in Auschwitz on January 28, 1944. Vera survived the war.

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Jul 13

13.07.1943 | Max (Marcus) Hamme was deported to #Sobibor camp. He was one of the 2209 deportees of the 18th transport from Westerbork. On July 13, 1943 he threw a letter to his wife from the train. She received it. What were Max' last words to her and the world? 👇🏼 1/11

2/11 Marcus Hamme was born in The Hague in 1901. He had 3 brothers and 2 sisters, of whom only Manuel David Hamme and his wife Roosje (Ro) Koekoek survived the war. Their son John Hamme died in Mauthausen on September 16, 1941, after being arrested prior to the February 1941 strike.

3/11 Marcus had himself registered in the marriage certificate as an accountant. He was also a secondary school accounting teacher in Oud-Beijerland. Keetje Tromp was a saleswoman. They had 2 daughters, Hanneke (Rotterdam, Nov. 12, 1933) and Aaltje (Elly) (Rotterdam, June 14, 1936).

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Jan 7

07.01.1921 | ❤ Jules Schelvis, whose birthday we commemorate today, founded the Sobibor Foundation 25 years ago. We owe it in large part to him that the world is now aware of #Sobibor. He made it his life's work with the motto: You must pass on these stories. A long thread👇🏼1/18

2/18 Jules was born on Jan. 7, 1921, the 2nd child of Jewish parents who went through life as humanists and members of the Social Democratic Workers Party (SDAP). Some Jewish traditions were maintained. He experienced his childhood in a diamond workers' family under varying financial circumstances during the crisis years of the last century as a happy one, especially because in addition to always having bread on the table, there was a focus on culture and science.

3/18 Jules was the son of diamond worker Jacob Schelvis and Esther Schelvis-Papegaaij. His father perished in an outside camp at Sachenhausen. His mother and sister Milly survived Bergen-Belsen and Beendorf. That the versatile boy from Amsterdam's Rapenburg, became a historian was not only determined by the history of the twentieth century. Schooling and cultural development were cherished and encouraged by the social democrats, but more than the three-year HBS (high school), as Jules himself had so desired, was out of the question: he had to start earning for the family and became a printer.

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Dec 21, 2023

21.12.1922 | 🕯 Remembering Doris Mak. She, like her brother, was born in Malmö. Since 1921 her father worked here for the Jewish community and was a ritual butcher. He was born in the Czech Republic. Her mother in Poland. In 1927, the family moved to Meent 94c in Rotterdam.👇🏼1/5

Fiszel Mak moved to Rotterdam 1927, serving the Dutch-Jewish Congregation as second hazzan (cantor) and as shokhet (ritual butcher). After the 1940 bombing, the family moved to Beukelsdijk 152a. Here they lived until April 10, 1943. 2/5

Childhood photos of Doris have been preserved, allowing us to see her grow up from baby to young lady. On April 10, 1940, the family was registered at the Westerbork transit camp. 3/5

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Nov 21, 2023

21.11.1932 | 🕯 No photograph of David Juda van der Velde has survived. The Germans erased all his tracks. However, in 2021, during archaeological excavations in Sobibor, the nameplate of 10 y/o David was found at the site of the barracks of the Sonderkommando in Lager III. 👇🏼1/7

What was David thinking about on April 2, 1943 just before he was killed? Was it of his childhood home at 5-II President Brand Street? Was he thinking of his happy childhood in the Transvaal neighborhood? 2/7

The Pres. Brandstraat is in the Transvaal neighborhood, a 1920s neighborhood between the railroad and the Ringvaart canal, a very Jewish neighborhood of the city before WW2. The houses in the Transvaal neighborhood were new; so there was heating, running water and a toilet. 3/7

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Oct 6, 2023

In May 2023, 80 years after her deportation, Sophia Engelsman-Huisman (97), the last survivor of #Sobibor, passed away. She also survived Aktion Erntefest, Auschwitz, Bergen-Belsen, Raguhn (Buchenwald) & Theresienstadt. Sophia's life is a testament to strength and survival.👇🏼1/17

The Jewish Huisman family had lived in @rotterdam for almost two centuries and the family was part of the upper middle class. They owned a men's clothing store on the Hoogstraat. In 1927, Karel Huisman became a wholesaler after quitting the family business. 2/17

The Huisman family's home at Goudsestraat 64a, Rotterdam, was destroyed by German bombings on May 14, 1940. They then relocated to Middenhoefstraat 15. They are religious and faithfully attend synagogue and at the same time are fully integrated into the Rotterdam. 3/17

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