Tswi Herschel was born December 29, 1942 in Zwolle, a small town in the Nazi-occupied Netherlands. In January 1943, the family was forced to leave Zwolle and moved to the Jewish ghetto in Amsterdam, where Tswi’s father contacted non-Jewish Dutch friends and asked them to help his newborn son. In March 1943, a Protestant Dutch […]
Leonard Vis was born September 16, 1930 in Amsterdam. His family had decided to remain in Holland in 1939, and Leonard attended a Jewish school after the German invasion in 1940. At that time he lost touch with his friends and went into hiding with his siblings at a neighbor’s home in 1942. He then moved […]
Eddy Sterk lived in Holland at the beginning of the war. As his father worked in a hospital, Eddy and his family were able to evade the early deportations, which slowly saw Amsterdam’s Jews transported “to the east”. Eddy’s siblings were eventually taken, and soon after Eddy and his parents were rounded up as well. […]