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 1945. An accompanying documentation centre was to be opened in 2020. So far, this has not happened. The investment company that owns the building has … Read more
In February 2020, the Dutch publisher Verbum released the book ‘Diamantkinderen‘ (English version: “The Rescue of Belsen’s Diamond Children“). It is about Jewish children in Bergen-Belsen. They were the children of the so-called Diamond Jews who were sent as family from Westerbork1 to Bergen-Belsen. The mothers of these children were the women transported from Bergen-Belsen … Read more
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 was one of the approximately 650 women who were transported to Dachau when the Vught camp was evacuated. About two hundred of them were quickly … Read more
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