It is right on the corner with the Lepelstraat. In these streets many Jews lived and afterwards all those houses were empty, at least for 99 percent. My father started a very simple dental practice with no more than a dental chair and a drill....
"These are my brothers; Abraham, Maurits and Joseph, murdered in Auschwitz, 14, 12 and 8 years old. And then there was also a sister Greetje. After the war my father remarried and his new marriage Greetje (1946), I (Ap 1947) and Dave (1949) were born....
Eli de Haringman had his fish stall next to the Monument of 'Gratitude' (1950), corner Weesperstraat / Sarphatistraat in Amsterdam. Walking to the Snoge, my father was always horrified and we loyally urinated against it. Eli watched us. When he was happy, you got a...
From Descendant Emily Wanderer Cohen, a book about her experiences growing up as 2G. After the Shoah her parents emigrated to the US and in her fifties, the author reflects on her upbringing, showing understanding and universal 2G problems. Not written from a Dutch context,...
Descendant S. and her husband A. were visiting York, an idyllic place in the United Kingdom. And where do you go to? To Clifford's Tower, which offers you a beautiful view of the medieval city. In 1068 William the Conqueror built a wall with a...
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I was shocked, walked out of the hotel and stood face to face with swastikas, SS signs, German soldiers in uniform. What the f*ck? Fortunately, the guide was standing next to me. Ania explained that these Poles like to be Germans and therefore they parade...
Sent by Polish Descendants, a film inspired by the events in Jedwabne, July 10, 1941, pogrom on Jewish inhabitants of the village. Polish complicity during the Holocaust, is that up for discussion? In any case, the Poles have no exclusive right to complicity. Let's start...