Alice Löwyova
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Alice Löwyova

Am heutigen Tag im Jahr 1920 wurde eine tschechische Jüdin geboren. Am 7. Mai 1942 wurde sie von Prag in das Ghetto #Theresienstadt und am 9. Mai 1942 in das Vernichtungslager #Sobibor deportiert, wo sie umkam.

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Lilly Eckstein

Am heutigen Tag im Jahr 1902 wurde eine tschechische Jüdin geboren. Am 7. Mai 1942 wurde sie zusammen mit ihrer Mutter und Schwester von Prag nach #Theresienstadt und am 9. Mai 1942 in das Vernichtungslager #Sobibor deportiert, wo sie umkam.

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Ursula stern, recalled in her post testimony the following: "My Parents hiding place was discovered and they were deported to Auschwitz where they died. When our hiding place was discovered, I was sent to Utrecht prison, from there we were transferred to Amstelveen and, finally to Camp Vught where we suffered a lot from repetitive roll calls. Later we were transferred to Westerbork, the gathering place of Dutch Jews, and we remained there for one week. In April 1943, we left for Poland, this journey was dreadful. When we reached Sobibor a selection took place: young girls were placed on the side and the others, including children, were immediately send to the gas chambers. We were given postcards. "Write to your families that you have arrived safely". I wrote a card to some Dutch friends, it reached its destination, and I found it after the war. Sobibor was hell. Selma Wijnberg, the other known survivor from this transport recalled: In 1942, I was arrested with my family and interned in Westerbork. We were 8,000 prisoners, and the German officers announced that were going to work in Poland or the Ukraine, and we were to take with us our shoes, clothes. Letters were arriving from Wladowa, confirming that life was pleasant in Poland. Later I knew it was a lie, as the prisoners were forced to sign printed postcards. A letter from Levie Sluijzer also remained. He did not survive Sobibor, but wrote about the long travel by train from Westerbork to Sobibor and hid his letter in the cattle car where it was retrieved when the train returned to Westerbork for transport #7.

April 6, 1943: The 6th transport for #Sobibor left #Westerbork, it consisted of 2020 deportees. Most of the deportees were murdered upon arrival. There are only two known survivors from this transport. A letter from Levie Sluijzer remained. He did not survive.
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The 5th transport from #Westerbork to #Sobibor arrived in Sobibor on April 2nd. There were 1255 Jewish men, women and children cramped aboard the cattle-trains. Most were murdered within hours of arrival. In this class photo, taken sometime in the second half of the 1930s, two girls, with dark hair and their arms crossed, can be seen sitting in the center. On the left is Ella Lina (Ellie) and to the right is her sister Betsy. They lived with their parents Zadok de Wolf, and Frieda Schlockoff and their little brothers Emanuel, Rudolf and Willy in Amsterdam. Sometime in 1941, Zadok de Wolf entrusted family photos, including this class photo of the two girls, to the family of Leo Künstlinger for safekeeping. The entire de Wolf family was deported to Sobibor and murdered there upon arrival. Willy was 1, Rudolf was 2, Emanuel was 5, Ellie was 7, Betsy was 9, Frieda was 31 and Zadok was 37 years old. Zadok's mother had passed away a few weeks after the Germans invaded The Netherlands, his father, 2 brothers and 3 sisters together with all their spouses and children were murdered in #Auschwitz between 1942 and 1945.

April 2, 1943: Upon arrival at #Sobibor extermination camp the entire "de Wolf" family of 7 is murdered.

Zadok de Wolf (37), his wife Frieda Schlockoff (31) and their children Willy 1, Rudolf 2, Emanuel 5, Ellie 7 (left in photo), Betsy 9 (right).

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Esther Cozijn

Am heutigen Tag im Jahr 1943 wurde die achtjährige niederländische Jüdin mit ihrer Mutter in das Vernichtungslager #Sobibor deportiert und dort in der Gaskammer ermordet. Ihr Vater war am 9. August 1942 in #Auschwitz umgekommen.

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Hans Joachim Engelbert

Am heutigen Tag im Jahr 1943 erreichte der 17-jährige deutsch-jüdische Junge, der in die Niederlande geflohen war, das Vernichtungslager #Sobibor, wo er umkam.

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A black and white photograph of a young girl with curled hair and a bow, focused on drawing with crayons at a table. She is sitting at a school desk. In the background: plant pots standing in line on a window sill.

02.04.1943|Germans murdered the Kapper family in the gas chambers of SS-Sonderkommando #Sobibor. Elisabeth, Meijer (both 35 y/o at that time) and their children: 📷Annie (12) and Gerard (6). From Annie’s ID tag found on the former camp grounds we know that they lived at O. Yselstraat 44 in Amsterdam.

Anton Neumann

An diesem Tag im Jahr 1928 wurde ein tschechisch-jüdischer Junge geboren. Am 7. Mai 1942 wurde er mit seinem Vater nach #Theresienstadt und am 9. Mai 1942 nach #Sobibor deportiert. Er starb am 10. Oktober 1942 in #Majdanek. Sein Vater starb in Sobibor.

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The 5th transport from #Westerbork to #Sobibor left on Tuesday, March 30. There were 1255 men, women and children aboard and no one survived the war. The train arrived in Sobibor on April 2nd, 1943. One of the victims was Bernhard Hellmann (39). He was in hiding in Ede, where he thought he was safe but was betrayed nonetheless. His son Paul, in hiding on another address, survived the war. During the trial of camp-guard John (Iwan) Demjanjuk, Paul Hellmann was one of the co-prosecutors. He spoke on behalf of his father. John Demjanjuk, was a Trawniki and Nazi camp guard at Sobibor extermination camp, Majdanek, and Flossenbürg. Photo: Photograph of Trawniki guards at Sobibor, taken in 1943. This was not seen publicly until January 2020, when it was one of numerous photos from Sobibor newly exhibited in Berlin. #Demjanjuk was "inconclusively identified" as the guard in the middle of the front row.

March 30, 1943: The 5th transport from #Westerbork to #Sobibor left on Tuesday, March 30. There were 1255 men, women and children aboard and no one survived the war. The train arrived in Sobibor on April 2nd, 1943.

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Micheline Zerla Levin

Am heutigen Tag im Jahr 1943 kam das neunjährige niederländische jüdische Mädchen mit ihrer Mutter, ihrem 14jährigen Bruder und ihrer Zwillingsschwester im Vernichtungslager #Sobibor an. Sie wurden bei ihrer Ankunft ermordet. Ihr Vater überlebte die Shoah.

Fanny Susanne Günsberg

Am heutigen Tag im Jahr 1943 wurde das 16jährige deutsch-jüdische Mädchen, das in den Niederlanden lebte, zusammen mit ihrem 14jährigen Bruder in das Vernichtungslager #Sobibor deportiert und ermordet. Ihr Vater war 1942 in Auschwitz umgekommen.

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Historical black and white photo showing a group of uniformed soldiers resting on grassy ground. Rifles are stacked nearby. Calm and disciplined atmosphere.

27.03.1943|Ivan (John) Demjanjuk (📷bottom centre) was dispatched to the German Nazi extermination camp SS-Sonderkommando #Sobibor. He was one of the most well-known and infamous Ukrainian guards recruited from among the Soviet POWs to the auxiliary SS-Wachmannschaften unit (Trawnikimänner).

Henny Henriette Adler
Am heutigen Tag im Jahr 1943 wurde das 12-jährige deutsch-jüdische Mädchen, das in den Niederlanden lebte, zusammen mit ihrer 18-jährigen Schwester ins Vernichtungslager #Sobibor deportiert und ermordet. Ihr Vater war 1938 in #Buchenwald umgekommen

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Jozef David Beem

An diesem Tag im Jahr 1943 kam ein 16-jähriger niederländischer Jude im Vernichtungslager #Sobibor an, wo er ermordet wurde. Seine Eltern wurden in #Auschwitz ermordet. Von seinen drei Geschwistern wurden zwei in Sobibor und eines in Auschwitz ermordet

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Ralph Heinz Protter

Am heutigen Tag im Jahr 1943 wurde der 12-jährige deutsch-jüdische Junge, der in den Niederlanden lebte, aus dem jüdischen Waisenhaus in Leiden in das Vernichtungslager #Sobibor deportiert. 55 Kinder wurden nach Sobibor deportiert, keines überlebte.

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Dov Freiberg - Wikipedia

Quite a life. He was only 15 when he ended up in #Sobibor. In 1943 he escaped and joined a Jewish partisan unit. In 1947, he was on board the Exodus. In 1948, he took part in the Arab-Israeli war.

Man in a white shirt stands at a courtroom podium with microphones. He has a serious demeanor, one hand on a book and the other resting on the podium.

26.03.2008| #Holocaust survivor Berek (Dov) Freiberg passed away in Ramla, Israel. He was deported to SS-Sonderkommando #Sobibor in May 1942 from Krasnystaw, but at the ramp he was selected for work. He testified in the trials in Hagen, and of Adolf Eichmann and John Demjanjuk.

Pierre Bekerman

Am heutigen Tag im Jahr 1923 wurde in Warschau ein jüdischer Mann geboren. Er lebte in Frankreich und wurde in Drancy interniert. Am 9. Februar 1943 wurde er nach #Auschwitz deportiert, wo er umkam. Seine Mutter starb 1942 im Lager, sein Vater 1943 in #Sobibor.

a transport deported from Camp Drancy in France, with 994 men, women and children. Also with destination to Sobibor (non survived). Amongst them was the Dutch artist Max van Dam (March 19, 1910 – c. September 20, 1943). Upon arrival in Sobibor Max van Dam was among the skilled workers selected while the remainder of the deportees were gassed or shot. Van Dam was set up in a studio for craftsmen where he created paintings for the camp staff. Sobibor survivor Kurt Ticho, who had befriended Van Dam in the camp, later recalled that deputy camp commander SS-Oberscharführer (Staff Sergeant) Gustav Wagner had ordered Van Dam to paint him based on the image on a postcard. Ticho testified during the Sobibor trial in Hagen that van Dam had painted portraits for the SS. Another survivor, Ursula Stern, mentioned in her post-war statements that Heinrich Himmler had posed for a portrait by Van Dam on an inspection tour of the extermination camp and its gassing operations. In the craftsmen's workshop Van Dam worked alongside Li van Staden, Moshe Goldfarb and the surviving gold smith Stanislaw Szmajzner. During much of his time in the camp Van Dam had a privileged position. When approximately 70 Dutch men assigned to slave-labour in the camp were murdered, following a betrayed escape attempt, he was exempt from these reprisal killings. SS-Oberscharführer Karl Frenzel stated in 1983 that he had kept one of the paintings by Van Dam but that his family had destroyed it, and everything else that connected Frenzel with the camps, after his 1962 arrest. He further stated that Van Dam had been killed in the revolt and that the paintings in Sobibor's staff quarters had been destroyed at the same time. Photo: Self-portrait Max van Dam at the age of 25. Collection Joods Historisch Museum Amsterdam.

March 23, 1943: On this Tuesday morning the 4th train to #Sobibor left Camp #Westerbork. Non of the 1250 men, women and children survived this extermination camp. At the same time, a transport deported from Drancy in France, with 994 Jews. Also to Sobibor (non survived).

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„Euthanasie“-Täter aus den Tötungsanstalten #Bernburg, #Sonnenstein, #Hartheim, #Grafeneck, #Brandenburg und der Zentrale in der Tiergartenstr. 4 in #Berlin kamen bei der Vernichtung von über 1,8 Millionen Jüdinnen:Juden in #Belzec, #Sobibor und #Treblinka zum Einsatz. Einer davon:

Maurits Cohen | Stichting Oorlogsverhalen Oorlogsverhaal Maurits (Mautje) Cohen. Hij was 5 jaar toen Nederland werd bezet door de Duitsersn. Hij zou als enige van het gezin van Mozes Cohen en Betje van Gelder de Tweede Wereldoorlog overleven....

His father Mozes (1872) was deported to #Auschwittz on 22 October 1942, his mother Betje (1905) to #Sobibor on 7 May 1943, his brother Hans (1932) to #Auschwittz on 16 November 1943.
His other brother Moritz (1934) survived. He died in 2023.

His story:
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Saartje van Gelder-Mooij

Am heutigen Tag im Jahr 1943 wurde eine 41-jährige niederländische Jüdin mit ihrem Mann in das Vernichtungslager #Sobibor deportiert, wo beide umkamen. Ihre zwölfjährige Tochter wurde am 9. Oktober 1943 in #Auschwitz ermordet. Drei weitere Kinder überlebten.

Katharina Rachelina Wallega

Am heutigen Tag im Jahr 1943 kam die neunjährige niederländische Jüdin mit ihrer Mutter im Vernichtungslager #Sobibor an, wo sie vermutlich beide in der Gaskammer ermordet wurden. Ihr Vater war am 30. September 1942 in #Auschwitz ermordet worden.

Elias (Alex) Cohen, the only known survivor from this transport, estimated in a post war testimony, that the number of deportees was probably at around 1050 people. He recounted their arrival at Sobibor: "The first thing we heard was all the shouting by the Moffen [Dutch derogatory term for Nazi's]… The women and children had to move on and disappeared through a gate. We could hear the carts the sick people were being thrown into, and a lot of crying and screaming. The men were still lined up in front of the fence… a German asked whether there were any doctors or nurses among us. They had to step forward. I considered pretending to be a medic but decided against it…. Then he asked for workers up to 35 years of age. As there too few of these, he increased the age limit to 40. I joined the queue, and as we were standing there, he asked us what our trade was. I told him I was a metalworker and was made to stand apart from the rest, along with a few others. We had to leave our luggage and get back onto the same train on which we had only just arrived. About 35 to 40 of us as well as the doctors and medics were sent to a transport to Lublin Photo: View of the old officers' dining room at Sobibor (known as the "Kasino") after renovations, summer 1943. The building served as a dining room for the Germans and as lodgings for the camp commanders. Everything was made to look inviting and idilic for the arriving deportees so they would be more willing to follow to the "showers" to be murdered.

March 17, 1943: The 3rd of 19 transports to #Sobibor extermination camp left #Westerbork in occupied the Netherlands. On board were 964 deportees. It arrived on March 20th. Elias (Alex) Cohen is the only known survivor.

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Toevlucht voor het kind Het journalistieke verslag ‘Een pot piccalilly voor Westerbork’ is onlangs heruitgegeven. Het reconstrueert hoe de Leidse politie op 17 maart 1943 het Joodse weeshuis Machseh Lajesoumim meedogenloo…

Journalistieke verslag ‘Een pot piccalilly voor Westerbork’
is onlangs heruitgegeven.
Het reconstrueert hoe de Leidse #politie op 17 maart 1943 het #Joodse #weeshuis Machseh Lajesoumim #meedogenloos #leeghaalde.
Op 23 maart gingen vanuit #Westerbork naar #Sobibor,
klein aantal kinderen overleefde...

André Levy | Projet Memoire Fabert

André was deported with his mother Blanche (1898) and his aunt Henriette (1901).
His father David (1885) and his other aunt Renée (1898), Blanche's twin sister, were deported from #Drancy to #Sobibor on 25 March 1943.
His brother Roger (1921) survived the war. He died in 2017.

Cate Polk, a nurse at the Jewish hospital in Rotterdam, recalls the events prior to deportation and the journey to the death camp: We arrived in Sobibor after 5 days … We came through some kind of forest, it looked creepy. We did not know what was going to happen. Disembarking at the station wasn’t too bad for us youngsters but the elderly who weren’t fast enough were thrown from the train…. Those who could not walk were immediately taken in lorries. We, the nurses, were the first to be chosen. Then other women were chosen to do laundry and ironing. Mothers with children were told to stay with the children. Man were also selected, boys between 22-42 years of age. Also male nurses and doctors who had been placed in the first compartment of the train with some Germans. They were not allowed contact with the others. The Germans asked us if we had any diamonds. The train in which we sat now was the same one as before. A part had been disconnected in Sobibor. Some 4 cars returned to Lublin. We had to ‘schlepp’ [carry] our luggage and it made us laugh afterwards. Even in Westerbork some of it had already disappeared. We had to leave the rest in Sobibor. We considered it funny. We had no idea that they wanted to murder us. Thus we arrived in Lublin. All the girls stayed together. We never saw the men again. They were mainly from Rotterdam." Photo: A view of the new "Kasino" or officers' dining room in Sobibor, completed in the summer 1943. It was larger than the previous dining room and, thanks to the L-shape, offered a sheltered terrace. The Germans called the building "Zum lustigen Floh" (The Merry Flea). The furniture on the terrace was made by Jewish prisoners. The dishes and cutlery used there came from the belongings of the camp victims.

March 10, 1943: On Wednesday morning the 2nd of 19 transports to #Sobibor left camp #Westerbork with 1105 Jews. This was a special transport for the number of survivors. 13 people from this transport survived the war, all women. Only 18 people survived the 19 transports.

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10.03.1943|The second transport of Dutch Jews departed from the Westerbork transit camp to SS-Sonderkommando #Sobibor. The deportees included 440 men and 665 women, 13 of them survived the #Holocaust.

Op 10 maart 1943, 83 jaar geleden, vertrok vanuit #Westerbork een transport naar vernietigingskamp #Sobibor; het transport telde 1093 mensen, waaronder 64 bewoners van het Ned. Isr. #Oudeliedengesticht in de Nieuwe Kerkstraat te #Amsterdam; onder hen Barend en Alida Kornalijnslijper-van Kollem.