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Freddy Markovits was born on September 3, 1942 in Rotterdam, Holland. His father, Miklós Nico Markovics was a manufacturer and an owner of a saccharin factory in Rotterdam. Miklós was born on December 19, 1908 in Budapest, Hungary and immigrated to the Netherlands, together with his family in 1914. Freddy’s mother, Julia Hermer Markovics was born on October 5, 1914 in Rotterdam. Her father, who immigrated ...

Rachel Hakker was born in Switzerland on 9 December 1942. Her family originated from Antwerp. Rachel’s father Simon Hakker was born in the Belgian port city in 1912, as the son of the Dutch couple Joseph Hakker and Rachel Simons. Like his father, Simon became a pastry chef. The Hakker family had a bakery at Provinciestraat in Antwerp. In 1934, grandfather Joseph Hakker won a baking competition by creating ...

Elly (nee Dwinger) Bollegraaf (b. September 19th, 1940, Amsterdam, Netherlands) was a child survivor of the Holocaust who now lives in Ottawa. Elly’s mother Rhodea Shandler (nee Henriette Dwinger) (b. August 26, 1919, Leeuwarden, Netherlands - d. February 17, 2006, Richmond, B.C.) was born in a traditional Jewish Orthodox family in Leuuwarden, in the Netherlands. Her parents were Joseph Dwinger and ...

Commemorative Kingmark buttonhole pin acquired by Louise Lawrence-Israels. It was issued in honor of the 70th birthday of King Christian X of Denmark on August 21, 1940. It has the King’s initials, the years 1870-1940, and the Danish flag. Christian remained in Copenhagen during the German occupation (4/1940-5/1945) and the Kingmark became a popular symbol of Danish independence, patriotism, and solidarity. ...

Ellis and her brother Abraham pose in front of blooming tree, probably in Scheveningen in 1938. Deer grazing at a park in the Hague. David with Ellis and Marian Viskoop, a family friend later killed at Sobibor. 01:10:33 A pier close to the family home on Maastrichtsestraat in Scheveningen, "SCH" on the boats. 01:10:37 Good shots of David, Abraham, and Ellis walking hand-in-hand in town. Clock and illegible ...

Elisheva (Ellis) Lehman (nee Cohen-Paraira) was born in Amsterdam on April 22, 1924. Her brother Abraham (Bram or Bob) was born on August 25, 1926. They were raised in Scheveningen, a seaside town in the Hague. Their mother, Susie Nabarro, died of cancer in 1938, and their father, David, remarried in 1941. David was an artist and, later, a traveling salesman for a cigar factory. At the age of 17, Ellis ...