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Leida (Aleida) Keesing (geboren Van Tijn) groeit als nakomertje op in een orthodox-joods gezin. Leida vertelt dat ze erg verwend werd. Op haar twaalfde jaar komt zij naast de familie Keesing te wonen. Leida spreekt met grote waardering en liefde over alle leden van het gezin. Op haar zestiende verlooft ze zich met de zoon, Guus.Vader Keesing voorziet al vanaf 1933 dat het mis zal gaan. Hij probeert ...

The Nazi Germans used Izbica, the Polish village where Philip Bialowitz was born, as a transitory ghetto for Jews on their way to the destruction camps in Eastern Poland. In Izbica Philip Bialowitz survived a fire squad as a young boy. He was deported to Sobibor in 1943 and selected for forced labour upon arrival. Philip's elder brother, Simkha, took care of him wherever possible. Philip was involved ...

Simcha Bialowitz (1912) grew up in the shtetl of Izbica, a small Jewish community in eastern Poland. The Bialowitz family was observant. Simcha attend the Polish school, which had a few Jewish teachers. In the morning he would be in school, in the afternoon he would work in the local pharmacy and drugstore. When the Germans invaded, Izbica changed into a transitory ghetto. His father was murdered in ...

Selma Engel was born Saartje Wijnberg on May 15, 1922, in Groningen. Her parents ran a kosher hotel in Zwolle during the crisis years. Being Jewish, Selma went into hiding during the German occupation. She was rounded up and deported to Sobibor as a penitentiary measure in April 1943. She lived in this extermination camp for six months, working in the sorting barracks and, sometimes, in the woods.In ...