Esther Raab was born in Chelm (Poland). Having grown up in a middle-class Jewish family, she remembers a "comfortable" childhood. Her father had many non-Jewish clients, with whom he could get on well. One of them helped Esther and her brother hide from the Nazis during the last year of the war. Esther had worked in a number of labour camps before she arrived in Sobibor in December 1942. In Sobibor, ...

Arkady Wajspapir (Arkadii Weisspapier) was born in 1921 in the Ukrainian village of Bobrovyy Kut, then a Jewish community. He had an elder brother and a younger sister. The family lived together with the grandfather from his father's side - and his second wife plus a few relatives - in a house divided for the purpose. Arkady had had ten years of school when he enrolled in the Red Army in 1939. He was ...

Van 1942 tot de bevrijding zorgde zuster Julia voor een Joods echtpaar dat zat ondergedoken in de kelder van bejaardentehuis Sint Jacob in Amsterdam. Behalve moeder-overste wist niemand van de onderduikers af. Tussen zuster Julia en het Joodse stel ontstond een vriendschap, die ook na de oorlog standhield. Elke week kwam het echtpaar Julia een grote doos chocola brengen die zij, tegen de regels in, ...

De geïnterviewde maakt deel uit van de ervaringsgemeenschap van kloosterzusters (de Tilburgse Zusters van Liefde) die ondanks een gedeelde kloostercultuur (vaste dagorde en tijdstippen voor alles, vaste zwijguren en stipte gehoorzaamheid) in de verschillende huizen van de congregatie de oorlog verschillend hebben beleefd. Dingena Catherina Antonia Hoes, kloosternaam Cecilia, geboren op 09-02-1920 Zuster ...

This collection comprises photographs documenting the life of the Gronowski family in Belgium from the 1920s to the 1940s and postwar until 2018. It includes images of Simon Gronowski and his sister Ita, capturing various stages of their lives, and also various photographs of their parents, Léon (Leib) Gronowski and Chana Kaplan, taken among other places in their garden at 639 Chaussée de Wavre, Brussels. ...