In Remembrance: Naatje Morpurgo-van Wijnbergen

January 30, 2025

In Remembrance: Naatje Morpurgo-van Wijnbergen

According to the Joods Monument-Jewish Monument, seven Dutch Jews were tragically murdered at Bergen-Belsen on this day, 80 years ago. Today, I am remembering one of them: Naatje Morpurgo-van Wijnbergen.

Naatje was born in The Hague on March 11, 1874, and was murdered in Bergen-Belsen on January 30, 1945, at the age of 70. She and her husband, Louis Morpurgo, had five children, though one of them did not survive the horrors of the war.

From January 14, 1943, to February 1, 1944, Naatje was imprisoned at Camp Westerbork. On February 1, 1944, she was deported from there to Bergen-Belsen, alongside 879 others. Tragically, Naatje was murdered on January 30, 1945.

In remembering her today, we honor not only her life but the countless others who suffered and perished in the atrocities of the Holocaust.

Sources

https://www.joodsmonument.nl/nl/page/171315/naatje-morpurgo-van-wijnbergen

https://www.oorlogsbronnen.nl/tijdlijn/ca5605e0-2687-4e93-b2ca-26b5e3ce2404

https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/272088901/naatje-morpurgo-van_wijnbergen

https://www.openarchieven.nl/ghn:60b6b076-a136-11e8-828a-00505693001d

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Bergen Belsen, Holocaust, the Netherlands, Westerbork, World War 2

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3 responses to “In Remembrance: Naatje Morpurgo-van Wijnbergen”

tzipporahbatami

January 30, 2025

JUST A CORRECTION. THIS LADY WAS MURDERED AT BERGEN BELSEN. NOT DIED THERE. EVEN THOSE WHO PERISHED FROM TYPHUS AND STARVATION, WHO DID NOT GET SHOT, WERE STILL MURDERED THERE AS THEY WOULD NOT HAVE BEEN THERE OF THEIR OWN ACCORD, THEY WERE IMPRISONED THERE FOR GUILT OF A CRIME OF BEING HUMAN BEINGS FAR BETTER THAN THOSE WHO MURDERED THEM. THANK YOU

TZIPPORAH

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1. dirkdeklein
  
  January 30, 2025
  
  I actually said she was murdered
  
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  1. tzipporahbatami
    
    January 30, 2025
    
    Apologies, it was unclear at end for me. So I wanted to emphasize for your other readers, but of course you are correct.
    
    Just for the historical record, all people imprisoned in any space for no reason other than genocide are murdered, even if they die of disease, because they would not have gotten this disease in their own homes. An example would be Anne Frank. She did not perish. She did not die. She was murdered by the Nazis and their allies who imprisoned her in Bergen Belsen. So perhaps that is a better example. I am directing this as a general comment, not for you who is well informed but to others who might not perceive of the necessity of this explanation. So if an Ugyur Muslim dies in a prison camp in China, and his only crime was to be an Ugyur Muslim, the correct terminology would be that he was murdered by those who imprisoned him.
    
    I thank you for your correction and once again I apologize.
    
    Tzipporah
    
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