![]() Thank you all for caring and maybe take the time to look at all these other kids stories! I'm sure it would mean a lot to them like it did to me. There were so many others who's situations were worse, I know it's hard to believe, but it is true. It may not have a happy ending, but there is no way to go back and change what happened. There are some similar to it, unfortunately this is most of the information that was kept of me. I, along with my brother, was soon deported to the Auschwitz death camp in Poland, where we were both murdered upon arrival. Abraham, born on June 13, 1934, was a five year old both in Leeuwarden, Holland when the Germans first came. A billboard advertising 'Evas Stories', a social media project by Israeli entrepreneurs telling the imagined documentary of the final months of Eva Heyman, a Jewish teenager who was murdered by. They soon found collaborators who were willing to turn us in for payment. The Nazis then made their searches more intense. By that time I was 11 years old and my brother 9. Unfortunately, the Nazis started to realize that many Jewish children started to get sent into hiding. So, you would think from then on I would be fine right? From then on I was called Linni de Witt, and I attended school along with the other village children. Of course no one could know who I really was otherwise my identity would be revealed. ![]() So, we moved in with a nice Christian family in Ermelo, who was willing to risk death to save mine and my brothers lives. My parents felt that us children would be safer as non-Jews in a rural village. My family decided that we should go into hiding after we heard about people murdering the Jews at death camps in Poland. A lot of Jews were forced into restricted ghetto areas in July 1941 and after May 1942 Jews were forced to wear a yellow Jewish star. That is when the Germans invaded Holland. When I was 2 years old my brother Abraham was born on June 13th. My Father was a teacher at a high school in the small city of Leeuwarden, in northern Holland. I was born on to my parents Hartog and Rosette Beem. That is when the events all happened, what event? The event that changed history, and impacted mine, This picture was taken when I was 8 years old. Sometimes the person who looks the happiest is a lot of times going through the I know I'm pretty adorable! In this picture I look happy, but Abraham, along with his older sister Eva, was deported to the Auschwitz death camp in Poland, where both were murdered upon arrival.This is me. Nine year-old Abraham was denounced as a Jew in February 1944. They found collaborators willing to turn them in for payment. The Nazis, realizing that many Jewish children had been sent into hiding, intensified their search. He was known as Jan de Witt, and he attended school along with the other village children. Abraham was given a new name and identity. Most of the children and their counselors were sent to the Auschwitz death camp on April 15, where they were murdered in the death camps. Abraham and his older sister were sent to the village of Ermelo, and a Christian family, willing to risk death to save them, was found. They felt that the children would be safer posing as non-Jews in a rural village. They were first taken to transit camps, and from there to death camps in Poland, where they were murdered.Ībraham's parents decided that the family would go into hiding. Beginning in mid-July 1942, the Germans began rounding up Holland's Jewish citizens. They had been given new identities with a Christian family. Many Jews were forced into restricted ghetto areas in July 1941, and after May 1942, all Jews had to wear the yellow star. Eva and Abraham Beem were Dutch Jewish siblings and victims of the Holocaust in the Netherlands. But the Germans reacted brutally, and were able to break up most organized resistance. At first, the Dutch population resisted the anti-Jewish measures enacted by the Germans. The rich became poor and the middle class was reduced to subsistence levels. Beginning in October 1940, they liquidated Jewish businesses and banned Jews from most professions. When the Germans invaded, they immediately embarked upon steps to separate the Jews from the rest of the population. The Jews of the Netherlands were well-integrated into the general population and they were active in all aspects of the country's social, cultural and economic life. Romania Auschwitz The only child of a cosmopolitan Hungarian Jewish couple, Eva grew up in a city on the border between Romania and Hungary. ![]() ![]() Abraham's father was a high school teacher in the small city of Leeuwarden, in northern Holland. Abraham, the son of Hartog and Rosette Beem, was a five year-old schoolboy when the Germans invaded Holland in May 1940.
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