Eva and Bram, born in 1932 and 1934, were the children of Hartog Beem and Retje Kannewasser in Leeuwarden. At the end of 1942, and at least until May 1943, Eva and Bram were still in-hiding in the Veluwe, at ‘De Zwarte Boer’ near Elspeet. The children were arrested in February 1944 and 6 March 1944, murdered at Auschwitz.
Bram and Eva’s parents, Hartog Beem and Retje Kannewasser survived the war by going into hiding.
Jansje and Benjamin Pais from Harlingen. The picture was taken shortly before deportation in 1942. Jansje was born in Harlingen on 31 March 1933. Benjamin was born in Harlingen on 8 November 1934. Both children were murdered on 23 November 1943 in Auschwitz.
Frits and Helen Sophie Reindorp, the photograph was saved by neighbours after the family was deported. They were hoping they could return the picture after the war. Unfortunately, no one of the family returned.
Frits Reindorp was born in Leeuwarden on 16 October 1934 and murdered in Auschwitz on 2 November 1942. Helen Sophie Reindorp was born in Leeuwarden on 11 May 1936 and murdered in Auschwitz on 2 November 1942.
Only after I put the photographs together did I realise that all these sets of siblings were from Friesland, in the Northwest of the Netherlands. It is the province my maternal grandparents were from. They moved to Limburg in the Southeast of the Netherlands in the late 1920s. All of those children could have easily been related to me.
Sources
https://www.oorlogsbronnen.nl/tijdlijn/Jansje-Pais/01/27964
https://www.oorlogsbronnen.nl/tijdlijn/Benjamin-Rapha%c3%abl-Pais/02/114517
https://www.joodsmonument.nl/nl/page/131714/frits-reindorp
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