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A small boy named Jacques Maurice Duizend was just a baby—a toddler. His last name is also a number, Thousand.

That is the number of years the failed Austrian artist had envisaged his ‘Reich’ to last.

To achieve that two-year-old children like Jacques Maurice Duizend had to be murdered.

Jacques Maurice Duizend was born in Amsterdam on 29 June 1941. He was murdered in Auschwitz on 22 May 1944. On 19 May 1944, he was deported from Westerbork to Auschwitz. He was not alone on that transport. There were another 452 with him on that train. One of them was Anna Maria (Settela) Steinbach. One of my cousins is married to one of her relatives.

Settela was nine when she was murdered.

Why did a two- and a nine-year-old have to be murdered? Just because of some unrealistic ideas from a delusional failed artist.

Why were we denied to getting to know Jacques Maurice and Settela?

Why murder children?

It is a song by Whitney Houston that had the line “I believe the children are our future”, and they are.

Why deny them that future? Because that denial had an impact on all of us.

In my heart, I hope that Jacques Maurice Duizend is celebrating his birthday with Anna Maria (Settela) Steinbach in heaven.

sources

https://www.oorlogsbronnen.nl/tijdlijn/Anna-Maria-Steinbach/01/102512

https://www.oorlogsbronnen.nl/tijdlijn/Jacques-Maurice-Duizend/01/89442

https://www.joodsmonument.nl/en/page/160138/jacques-maurice-duizend