What can happen when you write about your family history After you leave, I will count the silver. I often hear this joke at celebrations and parties. The jokers have…
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In 2017, the Hannoverscher Bahnhof memorial was opened in Hamburg. It commemorates the deportations of Jews and Sinti and Roma that took place from this train station between 1940 and…
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Jan van Ommen has been a member of the Stichting Vriendenkring Neuengamme, the Dutch Group of Friends of the concentration camp memorial, for many years. His mother Renny van Ommen…
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In 1939 the German-Jewish Birnbaum family ended up at Camp Westerbork in the East of the Netherlands, near the German border. Father and Mother Birnbaum cared for German-Jewish children who…