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The aim of this project is to gather all profiles of survivors and victims who were on the Lost Train, in the hopes of better commemorating and understanding their experience during the last days of the Holocaust (and the months following it). The following description was taken from Jewishgen , which holds a database relating to some of the people who were on this train. As the end of World Wa...
The Holocaust ==In 1939, there were some 140,000 Dutch Jews living in the Netherlands, among them some 25,000 German-Jewish refugees who had fled Germany in the 1930s. The Nazi occupation force put the number of (racially) Dutch Jews in 1941 at some 154,000. In the Nazi census, some 121,000 persons declared they were members of the (Ashkenazi) Dutch-Israelite community; 4,300 persons declared t...
The Soesan family is a Jewish family, of which the geographical roots are very obscure. The oldest ancestor, David Schuschan (1660?-1724), who settled in Amsterdam, is said to have come from the city of Shush in Persia (= the biblical/historical Susa). However, these claims lack sources to support them. The Persian origin story seems even more unlikely, when considering the fact that there is a...
Women’s gymnastics made its debut in the 1928 Olympic Summer Games held in Amsterdam, and Netherlands’ female gymnasts won the gold medal. The members of the 1928 Olympic gold winning Dutch team were: * Coach: Gerrit Kleerekoper * Alida van den Bos * Estella Agsteribbe * Jacomina van den Berg (1909-1996)* Petronella Burgerhof * Elka de Levie (survived)