AuthorHannie Visser-KieboomLocationStationsweg 5, GeertruidenbergThemePersecution The Jewish community in Geertruidenberg was small, its few members met every week on the Sabbath in the synagogue that stood in the shadow of the majestic Geertruidskerk church. This was...
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...
