Albert and Keetje Eskenazi z"l stood under their chuppah at the Snoge in The Hague on Aug 2, 1942.
🕯️ Baby Alexander died at just 3 weeks old on 06 aug 1943 @kampwesterbork.
🕯️ Albert was murdered 5 days later.
🕯️ Keetje was murdered at @AuschwitzMuseum 2 months later
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@curatorWH Reading tip.
Behind the Fireplace: Memoirs of a girl working in the Dutch Resistance
Andrew Scott
ISBN 10: 1523356995 ISBN 13: 9781523356997
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This superb documentary, 'Codename Englandspiel', reveals why the SOE lost so many agents in German-occupied Netherlands during WW2. #CodenameEnglandspiel#Englandspiel#SOE#WW2 2/3
https://t.co/Rhyy5KEtHT
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May 3, 1980: The Englandspiel Monument is unveiled in The Hague. It commemorates the 54 SOE agents dropped into the Netherlands and captured by the Germans. Fifty were executed or died in German concentration camps. #Englandspiel#NSection#SOE#WW2 1/3
De documentaire ‘De verdwenen Buurt’ over de voormalige Joodse buurt achter het Spui in Den Haag wordt opnieuw uitgezonden door @omroepwest . Ik vertel kort over de Joodse bewoners van de Buurt.
Op 5 mei is de documentaire onderdeel van het nationale bevrijdingsprogramma op NPO2.
Jan Vandeput shares this fine image and details: "My father 1 Bn Para, my grandfather 2 SAS Squadron Belgium, along with Captain Blunt at Bure 1984." The Belgian SAS engaged in some daring WWII missions. Along with 1 & 2 SAS Regiments, there were two French SAS regiments formed in 1944, plus the Belgian squadrons. All trained rigorously in Scotland for the D-Day landings and beyond ...
@authordlewis Our last stop, the Mémorial aux fusillés de la Noël 1944. The last four days have been profound, and the duty of keeping these memories alive is vital. As the grandson of Holocaust survivors, looking at my son standing beside me on this ground. that is the ultimate victory.
@authordlewis Thank you. These men are an inspiration.
It feels like Europe has forgotten the price of freedom and peace.
Now I am teaching my eldest son about this price and to never forget the brave man and woman that gave their lives for our freedom.
Lest we forget , we remember. יזכור.