Ina Burt | |
27-09-2020 | |
My name is Ina Burt. My dad (Marcel Klein) was a Holocaust survivor who moved to Australia in 1949. He was married to Cato Vrachtdoener. Both were the only survivors of their immediate families. Read More |
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Myriam Daru | |
16-05-2020 | |
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Lukas Franck | |
08-08-2019 | |
My name is Lukas van Witsen Franck. My father, Frederick Franck changed the spelling of his family name from Frank to Franck upon arrival in the United States out of an abundance of caution and to somewhat disguise his background. Read More |
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Marise Rinkel Bochove | |
18-12-2018 | |
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Leo Ensel | |
29-11-2018 | |
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John Bruyn | |
21-08-2018 | |
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Laureen Levy | |
30-05-2018 | |
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mr. drs. Heather Kurzbauer | |
30-05-2018 | |
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Karen Emily Strauss | |
20-04-2018 | |
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Yvet Anna | |
13-03-2018 | |
ANNA SCHWARTZ & MAURICE LEIBOVICI, a wartime love story
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Sharon Czapnik Down | |
19-02-2018 | |
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Carla Peperzak | |
13-11-2017 | |
I am a survivor, I was born in Amsterdam in 1923. I was also part of the underground and helped relatives and friends to go into hiding. Read More |
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Louise Sorensen | |
23-08-2017 | |
She lived in Rotterdam at the family home where I was born on Bergweg 99 where she had her own room on my grandparent’s floor. Read More |
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Lee and Lisa Ross-Marcus | |
19-08-2017 | |
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Andre J Holten | |
25-03-2017 | |
I am the son of Aron Houtkruijer and Clara Houtkruijer – Duits. Besides adopting the names of my parents and grandparents, I have also adopted the names of several uncles, aunts and cousins. As a substitute teacher in New Mexico I get invited from time to time to talk about my experience as a Holocaust survivor, that is as a Hidden Child, during the last 2 years of the war. Read More |
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Eliane C. Gomes | |
16-10-2016 | |
I have just adopted the name of Despite the coincidences we are not related. My grandmother was a Cardozo and my grandfather a Mendes Gomes. Out of curiosity I’ve searched my surname and voilà! Read More |
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Avraham Brommet | |
21-09-2016 | |
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Heleena van Raan | |
22-07-2016 | |
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Marion Maas-Slap | |
05-07-2016 | |
I have adopted the names of my father, both grandfathers and both grandmothers. I survived the Holocaust along with my mother. I’m almost 80 now, and I hope I live to witness the completion of the memorial. Then I’ll visit it with my children and grandchildren. |
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Riet van der Chijs – Smit | |
04-07-2016 | |
I have adopted the name Sophia Abram. Why? I often bumped into Sophia on Generaal Cronjestraat in Haarlem. She lived there with her parents and brother. Her parents had a shop that sold toys that I sometimes frequented, fond as I was of fun things. I was born in 1932, so I was about 11 at the time. The persecution of Jews was often discussed in our home, so I knew what was happening. Read More |
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Elisheva and Joke van Den Brink | |
19-06-2016 | |
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Milko de Vries | |
05-06-2016 | |
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Sam Sealtiel | |
17-05-2016 | |
I was born in Amsterdam in 1938, a child of the marriage between Izaak Sealtiel and Theodora Sealtiel-Leon. |
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Peter van der Hak | |
13-05-2016 | |
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Alberdina Roosegaarde Bisschop-Vogel | |
16-09-2015 | |
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Joline van Twillert-Tuenter | |
16-09-2015 | |
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Mabs Meer | |
13-08-2015 | |
Roosje Henselein, 16 July 1928, 14 years old. This is the name adopted by my mother Sjaan Turkenburg, who died on 23 July 2015. |
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Roderik Koekkoek | |
14-09-2015 | |
I have just adopted a name! I searched for people with the same profession as me on the Jewish Memorial website. So I looked for a cabinetmaker, and I found one in the person of Soesman Waas. Read More |
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Petra Hagenaar | |
13-08-2015 | |
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Sara Steensma-Hemerik | |
08-08-2015 | |
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Marianne van Embden | |
07-11-2014 | |
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Klootwijk Family | |
28-03-2014 | |
We have adopted the name Simon Knap. The boy was a neighbour of my husband Henk Klootwijk, who lived on Banierstraat in Rotterdam. |
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Wim Sweers | |
07-05-2014 | |
Up until 1943 we lived in half a house with an alcove on Knollendamstraat in Amsterdam. Luckily, that September we were offered a better home at Majubastraat 7II in the Transvaalbuurt district, a neighbourhood that was initially home to many Jewish families, but where many homes were left empty after the Nazi roundups. Read More |
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Lieneke Gerzon | |
22-05-2014 | |
The name I am adopting is that of my old aunt. My father, Frits Gerzon, thought of her as his second mother. Read More |
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Bep Schouten-Winkel | |
28-03-2014 | |
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Pieter Kuijt | |
03-05-2014 | |
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Michel Kooij | |
04-05-2014 | |
What a wonderful initiative. I experienced at close hand the effects of the Nazi roundup in my home town of Putten. Of the 661 people deported from Putten, just 48 returned. The last survivor, Jannes Priem, passed away last year. A close friend, he was in Bergen Belsen when Anne Frank died there. He told me that he might have carried her to the crematorium. Read More |
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Eduard R. Baaij | |
04-05-2014 | |
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Nomen Nescio | |
04-05-2014 | |
I have visited the site many times in recent days. With tears in my eyes, I have been reading the stories of all those who have posted them here. We didn’t have any acquaintances, family or friends of Jewish origin. We all lived in the countryside of Groningen, where food and supplies were plentiful. Read More |
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George Eli van Eijmeren | |
02-05-2014 | |
On 2 June 2014 we moved into an apartment with two balconies in Zeist. One balcony overlooks Walkart Park, and in the park there is a memorial bearing the names of all Jews deported from Zeist. Read More |
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