Location Den Bosch Author Eric Alink All life has a small beginning. A single cell which then divides. From this division come new cells which then also divide. The Jewish Annie Troostwijk-Samuel [27] knew that is how life begins. Just another six weeks, according to...
Location Vught Authors Moniek Hover & Juriaan van Waalwijk As the war progressed, Jewish persecution in Europe was increasing at a frightening rate. Concentration camps were built in various places in Europe, including in North Brabant. An SS concentration camp...
Location Spoorlaan 72 Tilburg /Veemgebouw 2nd floor, Eindhoven Author Arnoud-Jan Bijsterveld In April 1934, nine-year-old Lore Samson, her parents, and her 12-year-old brother, Alfred, fled to Tilburg from the German Rhineland to escape increasing anti-Semitism in...
Location Market, Waalwijk Author Hannie Visser-Kieboom Simon van Adelberg was secretly in love with his aunt Maaltje, and particularly loved her red hair. Aunt Maaltje van Adelberg-Hartog and her sister Betje Hartog were both childless. Simon and his brother Louis...
Location Den Bosch/Camp Vught Author Doret Eeken Roosje Glaser, the daughter of an affluent family, was raised in Kleve, Germany, where her father was a factory manager. The growing anti-Semitism towards the end of the 1920s was a huge blow to the family and the...
Location Trappist Monastery, Berkel-Enschot Author Tjeu Cornet As a child, Veronica (born 1911) was known simply as ‘Wies’. She was raised in Bergen op Zoom in a devout Catholic family. The fact that her parents, Mr and Mrs Löb, were once Jews was never discussed, all...
Location Travellers’ camp Eindhoven Author Laurie Wolffs On Tuesday 16 May 1944, a roundup took place in Eindhoven and a young girl was arrested. Three days later, she was deported together with her family from Camp Westerbork to Auschwitz-Birkenau, where she also...
Location Reusel/Hooge Mierde Author Tjeu Cornet Jewish children faced the same risks as their parents during the occupation, but you could sometimes survive with a good hiding place and a different name. Joost and Freddie Oppenheim tried just that. Their parents fled...
Location Deurne Author Piet Snijders Erwin Michael Joseph – always known as Michael – was Jewish. He was the only child (1925) of Kurt Joseph and Elly Glogau from Berlin. Early in the 1930s his father committed suicide. A couple of years later Jewish persecution...
Author Marlon van den Bergh Location Frankrijkstraat 40, Eindhoven Theme Resistance During the war, the Sicherheitsdienst (Security Service or SD) hunted down state enemies, a group that included Jews, communists and resistance fighters. The SD was founded by the...
