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1. Alfred Traum papers
1997.A.0153.2 Box 1 Folder 1 Image 3
Document | Accession Number: 1997.A.0153.2
Date:
inclusive: circa 1938-1997
bulk: 1938-1942
… (March 22, 1926). Elias was severely crippled from injuries sustained in World War I and spent his afternoons playing with and instructing Alfred. The…
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 … papers, a report card, family correspondence from Elias and Gita Traum in Vienna to their children in London, family photographs from Vienna, England, and…
2. Bela Gondos family papers
1989.202. 3 Box 1 Folder 3 Image 5
Document | Accession Number: 1989.202.3
Date:
inclusive: 1921-1995
… Montreux and lived in a resort hotel. The war ended when Germany surrendered on May 7, 1945. Bela, Anna, and Judit learned that most of their family had…
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 … authorization signed by Dr. Polgar in Bergen-Belsen allowing Bela Gondos to receive wood for shoe soles. Photographs depict the Gondos family, their friends, and…
3. Ruth B. Mandel papers
1989.55.11 Box 1 Folder 1 Image 8
Document | Accession Number: 1989.55.11
Date:
inclusive: 1937-1947
…The Ruth B. Mandel papers consist of biographical materials and photographs documenting the Blumenstock family from Vienna, their effort to immigrate…
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 … Archives, 100 Raoul Wallenberg Place SW, Washington, DC 20024‐2126 Abstract: The Ruth B. Mandel papers consist of biographical materials and photographs…
4. Gertrude Heller Fischbach collection
2000.481.1 Box 1 Folder 1 Image 3
Document | Accession Number: 2000.481.1
Date:
creation: 1938-1944
…The Gertrude Heller Fischbach collection consists of six photographs relating to the family of Gertrude Fischbach (née Heller). Pictured in the…
5. Gerald Schwab papers
Document | Accession Number: 2002.327.25
Date:
inclusive: 1885-2012
… the end of the war he was transferred to an intelligence unit and assigned to the U.S. Detailed Interrogation Center (USDIC). At this facility, where…
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 … 20024-2126 Abstract: The Gerald Schwab papers document Schwab’s work for the International Military Tribunal following World War II; research for his…
6. Ellen Kaidanow papers
2017.525. 1 Box 1 Folder 4 Image 18
Document | Accession Number: 2017.525.1
Date:
inclusive: 1938-circa 1998
…, Ukraine). Photographs include pre-war depictions of the Lewiatin family; post war images of Ellen with her paternal uncle’s family in Germany, including in…
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 … (present day Dubno, Ukraine). Photographs include pre-war depictions of the Lewiatin family; post war images of Ellen with her paternal uncle’s family in…
7. Morgenthau family papers
Document | Accession Number: 2015.255.1
Date:
inclusive: 1860-2005
bulk: 1930-1950
… Cleveland, Ohio. The United States declared war on Germany and Japan in December 1941. Morgenthau joined the United States Army. In 1943, he graduated from…
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 … correspondence, documents, photographs, and research notes related to the Morgenthau family. The collection includes material related to the Ottoman Empire and…
8. Hockenheimer, Loewenthal, Fraenkel, and Brock families papers
2016.500.1 Box 1 Folder 1 Image 1
Document | Accession Number: 2016.500.1
Date:
inclusive: 1886-2016
bulk: 1938-1945
… War, was eventually promoted to Second Lieutenant in the Military Intelligence Reserve, and spent 25 years in Germany as an Intelligence Officer for the…
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 … Wallenberg Place SW, Washington, DC 20024-2126 Abstract: The Hockenheimer, Loewenthal, Fraenkel, and Brock families papers include photographs, family trees…
9. Joffe family papers
Document | Accession Number: 2012.183.1
Date:
inclusive: 1920-1990
…Consists of documents, correspondence, and photographs related to the pre-war and wartime experiences of Szymon Joffe (later Paul or Sam Jaffe…
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 …, 100 Raoul Wallenberg Place SW, Washington, DC 20024‐2126 Abstract: Consists of documents, correspondence, and photographs related to the pre‐war…
10. Edith Simon Rosenthal papers
2005.564.1 Box 1 Folder 1 Image 1
Document | Accession Number: 2005.564.1
Date:
inclusive: 1923-1946
…The collection consists of artifacts, documents, and a photograph album relating to the experiences of Edith Simon Rosenthal and her family in…
11. Chaim Posner papers
2017.402.6 Box 1 Folder 2 Image 4
Document | Accession Number: 2017.402.6
Date:
inclusive: circa 1938-1975
… documents for Chaim and Regina Posner, and announcements for lectures by Posner. The collection further includes an undated photograph of a Hanukkah…
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 … undated photograph of a Hanukkah celebration, a 1940s report titled “Der Weg Nach Palaestina” about the difficulties of Jewish emigration to Palestine…
12. Marcus family papers
Document | Accession Number: 2018.340.1
Date:
inclusive: circa 1930-1998
bulk: 1939-1942
… (1890-1968) and the family owned a houseware factory. Erich served in the German cavalry during World War I. After the war, he married Phyllis Lewek (also…
13. Wald and Breuer families papers
2015.473.1 Box 1 Folder 5 Image 23
Document | Accession Number: 2015.473.1
Date:
inclusive: 1924-1946
undated: 
… prisoner of war camp in the United States, and was discharged on 26 June 1945 to join the United States Army.…
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 … identification documents of Julius and his sister Leonore, photographs of Julius with the other 50 children arriving in New York, and family correspondence. Also…
14. Freyer and Lichtenstein families papers
1991.A.0033.2 Box 1 Folder 16 Image 11
Document | Accession Number: 1991.A.0033.2
Date:
inclusive: 1906-1985
bulk: 1938-1953
…The collection consists of biographical material, immigration paperwork, correspondence, and photographs documenting the pre-war lives of Leo and Eva…
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 … Abstract: The collection consists of biographical material, immigration paperwork, correspondence, and photographs documenting the pre-war lives of Leo and…
15. Simcha Dimant papers
1993.34.13 Box 1 Folder 1 Image 1
Document | Accession Number: 1993.34.13
Date:
inclusive: 1936-1945
… troops. Just after the war, Symcho worked for the Allied Expeditionary Force, traveling through Germany gathering information on refugees from…
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 …, Washington, DC 20024-2126 Abstract: The Simcha Dimant papers, 1936-1945, relate to the Holocaust and immediate post-war experiences of Simcha Dimant (1914-1983…
16. Herbert Klein papers
2015.529.1 Box 1 Folder 2 Image 1
Document | Accession Number: 2015.529.1
Date:
inclusive: circa 1916-1949
… parents and pre-war, wartime, and post-war financial and restitution documents regarding the expropriation of the family's automobile garage and repair shop…
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 … records related to Herbert Klein of Vienna, Austria and his parents and pre-war, wartime, and post-war financial and restitution documents regarding the…
17. Henry Landman papers
1997.A.0175.1 Box 1 Folder 21 Image 11
Document | Accession Number: 1997.A.0175.1 | RG Number: RG-10.476
Date:
inclusive: 1907-1992
bulk: 1935-1945
…Collection contains correspondence, documents, photographs, leaflets, postcards, and related materials, including a yarmulke, which document the…
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 …” letters, emigration and immigration files, photographs, wartime newspapers and newsletters, World War II memorabilia, writings, restitution files, and…
18. Charles Deibel collection
Document | Accession Number: 2013.469.1
Date:
inclusive: 1920-1951
bulk: 1946-1951
… during most of World War II, but was commissioned as a Lieutenant in the Third Army in early 1945. Soon after the war ended, Deibel was sent to Germany…
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 …--Dachau. Military occupation. Dachau (Germany) CONTAINER LIST Series 1: Photographs, 1930-1950 (Box 1, 2 folders) Box Folder 1 1 Wartime and post-war…
19. Jack Moses papers
1993.43 Box 1 Folder 9 Image 5
Document | Accession Number: 1993.43
Date:
inclusive: 1897-1983
bulk: 1915-1947
…The Jack Moses papers consist of correspondence, identification papers, and photographs documenting Jack Moses, his family’s immigration to the…
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 …. This series also includes a World War I photograph of Julius Moses. http://collections.ushmm.org Contact reference@ushmm.org for further information…
20. Robert L. Tumler papers
Document | Accession Number: 2019.358.1
Date:
inclusive: 1927-1945
…The collection consists of wartime and postwar photographs, postcards, a typed report on Ebensee (Mimeograph copy) and a German map on which Tumler…
21. Herlinger family papers
2005.331.1 Box 1 Folder 8 Image 64
Document | Accession Number: 2005.331.1
Date:
inclusive: 1923-1956
bulk: 1923-1956
…The collection consists of a Leica camera, documents, and photographs relating to the experiences of Elsa, Ivo, and Lea Herlinger before the…
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 … Ivo and Elsa Herlinger, who lived as refugees from the Nazis in Italy during World War II, and later immigrated to the United States. The majority of…
22. Fritz Weinschenk papers
Document | Accession Number: 1999.A.0291.3
Date:
inclusive: 1912-1998
… publications. A March 1979 letter encloses black and white photographs of Weinschenk at a Jewish War Veterans event. Gestapo Bremen files including Gestapo and…
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 … publications. A March 1979 letter encloses black and white photographs of Weinschenk at a Jewish War Veterans event. Gestapo Bremen files including Gestapo and…
23. Esther Lurie papers
1995.A.0989.1 Box 3 Folder 13 Image 31
Document | Accession Number: 1995.A.0989.1 | RG Number: RG-24.022
Date:
inclusive: 1919-1995
… and she had five older sisters and an older brother. The family was forced to move to Riga during World War I (1914-1918), when Liepāja, a Baltic…
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 …, correspondence, subject files, and photographs relating to Esther’s wartime experience in the Kovno ghetto, Stuthoff concentration camp, and Leibitsch forced labor…
24. Robert M.W. and Ruth Benedicta Kempner papers
Document | Accession Number: 2001.62.1 | RG Number: RG-71.001
Date:
1935-1993
… the war and served as assistant U.S. chief counsel during the International Military Tribunal at Nuremberg, heading the Defense Rebuttal Section. His…
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 … Military Tribunal Nuremberg War Crime Trials, Nuremberg, Germany, 1946-1949 Ministries Trial, Nuremberg, Germany, 1948-1949 Correspondence. Photographs…
25. Rosenfeld family collection
Document | Accession Number: 2003.223.2
Date:
inclusive: circa 1930-circa 1979
…. The photograph series includes photographs of the Rosenfeld family and friends in Germany and England before, during, and after World War II. The…
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 … Esther Starobin. The photograph series includes photographs of the Rosenfeld family and friends in Germany and England before, during, and after World War…
26. Adam and Roma Zandel papers
2005.545.1 Box 1 Folder 21 Image 1
Document | Accession Number: 2005.545.1
Date:
inclusive: 1906-1985
bulk: 1920-1946
… to help establish the new factory. As war loomed, Adam applied for visas to leave the country. Along with several friends, Adam was able to procure a…
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 … to France to help establish the new factory. As war loomed, Adam applied for visas to leave the country. Along with several friends, Adam was able to…
27. Immigration Department of the Jewish Agency, Office in Istanbul (L15)
Document | Accession Number: 2011.102 | RG Number: RG-68.125M
Date:
inclusive: 1937-1949
…Passport photographs.…
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 …) Hias-Ica Emigration Association. Merkas Olami of the Hechaluz. Makhon le-mishar huts. World War, 1939-1945--Jews--Rescue. Refugees, Jewish--Europe…
28. Stephen J. Fraenkel papers
2017.556.1 Box 1 Folder 5 Image 6
Document | Accession Number: 2017.556.1
Date:
inclusive: circa 1830-2016
bulk: 1937-1948
… where he perished. Stephen knew his father had been deported from Berlin in 1942, but did not learn his fate until after the war. Stephen married…
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 … records, and photographs. Languages: German, English Administrative Information Access: Collection is open for use, but is stored offsite. Please contact…
29. Braunwasser family papers
2016.89.1 Box 1 Folder 9 Image 1
Document | Accession Number: 2016.89.1
Date:
inclusive: circa 1900-2014
… friend of the Braunwassers in Vienna, and of Weber’s son, who was killed while serving in the Germany Army during World War II. Additional photographs…
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 … serving in the Germany Army during World War II. Additional photographs depict the Geschwir family, who welcomed Inge to Texas, the Weiss family, and…
30. Irving Newman papers
1995.A.0753.1 Box 1 Folder 4 Image 9
Document | Accession Number: 1995.A.0753.1
Date:
inclusive: 1935-1949
… 1936 and Boris (William) born April 1939. In the years leading up to World War II, Irving tried to obtain papers in order to flee Lithuania, but was…
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 … is correspondence written in the post‐war period between 1945 and 1948 and family photographs that document the Newman family before the war and their…
31. Abraham Atsmon papers
1999.A.0151 Box 4 Folder 3 Image 1
Document | Accession Number: 1999.A.0151
Date:
inclusive: 1907-1994
… a list of Brigade members who died during the war. Photographs depict Abraham Atsmon, his family members, friends, fellow partisans, and David…
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 …, biographies, correspondence, reports, narratives, photographs, newspapers, protocols, and minutes documenting Atsmon’s family and pre-war life in Poland, his…
32. Anthony Acevedo papers
2010.440.1 Box 1 Folder 1 Image 5
Document | Accession Number: 2010.440.1
Date:
inclusive: 1935-2012
Special Collection:
Save Their Stories
… then walk down the hill in waist deep snow to the train depot. After a short truck ride, they marched for six days and nights to prisoner of war camp…
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 …" describing his wartime experiences; and photographs of Acevedo with family, friends, and colleagues before, during, and after the war. Languages: English…
33. Blinshteyn family papers
Document | Accession Number: 2017.166.2
Date:
inclusive: 1935-1945
bulk: 1944-1945
… Red Army, in which he served for the duration of the war. In the early days of the occupation, many family members were killed. In January 1942…
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 … Raoul Wallenberg Place SW, Washington, DC 20024-2126 Abstract: Correspondence, documents, and photographs related to Semyon and Velya Blinshteyn, and…
34. Ruth Taub Feldman papers
1995.A.0736 Book Enclosure Folder 1 Image 48
Document | Accession Number: 1995.A.0736
Date:
inclusive: 1929-1995
…The Ruth Taub Feldman papers consists of photographs of the Taub family, biographical materials documenting the Taub family, Ruth’s brief memoir…
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 … Raoul Wallenberg Place SW, Washington, DC 20024-2126 Abstract: The Ruth Taub Feldman papers consists of photographs of the Taub family, biographical…
35. Erwin Tepper papers
2015.590.1 Box 1 Folder 4 Image 3
Document | Accession Number: 2015.590.1
Date:
inclusive: 1929-2015
undated: 
…The collection consists of correspondence, documents, photographs, and writings related to the experiences of Erwin Tepper and his parents, Juda Ber…
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 … Memorial Museum Archives, 100 Raoul Wallenberg Place SW, Washington, DC 20024‐2126 Abstract: Documents, correspondence, photographs, and writings…
36. Wertheimer family papers
Document | Accession Number: 2005.258.1
Date:
1925-1961
…The papers consist of documents and photographs relating to Samuel and Frajdla Wertheimer and their families in Mińsk Mazowiecki, Poland; Warsaw…
37. Zyzniewski family papers
2014.451.1 Box 1 Folder 3 Image 17
Document | Accession Number: 2014.451.1
Date:
inclusive: 1925-1957
… Zyzniewski family before the war in Poland. The album includes photographs of the children playing, riding bikes, sledding in the snow; the family posing in…
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 … photograph album, 1928-1929, contains photographs of the Zyzniewski family before the war in Poland. The album includes photographs of the children playing…
38. Herbert Kline papers
Document | Accession Number: 2016.391.1
Date:
inclusive: 1934-1946
…Herbert Kline (1909-1999) was an American documentary filmmaker, best known for his works about the Spanish Civil War and the rise of Nazism in…
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 …, Washington, DC 20024-2126 Abstract: Correspondence, documents, and photographs, related to the work of American documentary filmmaker Herbert Kline, and in…
39. Pisker, Fischer, and Altstädter families papers
2014.411.1 Box 1 Folder 19 Image 3
Document | Accession Number: 2014.411.1
Date:
inclusive: 1919-1987
bulk: 1935-1948
… of the Jasenovac concentration camp, and written testimony from Elvira describing her wartime experiences. The photographs include pre-war family…
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 … include pre-war family photographs primarily of the Pisker family; the Pisker and Fischer families in Italian-occupied Crikvenica, Croatia; Elvira Pisker…
40. Lubinski family papers
Document | Accession Number: 2005.24.1
Date:
1930-1976
…The papers consist of 21 photographs and 12 documents concerning the experiences of Susan Lubinski [donor], her sister, Steffi, and her parents…
41. Friedrich Wilhelm Schilling collection
Document | Accession Number: 2012.85.1
Date:
inclusive: 1900-2011
…The Friedrich Wilhelm Schilling collection consists of copies of documents and photographs, in German and English, related to Friedrich Wilhelm…
42. Spielman family papers
2005.359.1 Box 1 Folder 6 Image 1
Document | Accession Number: 2005.359.1
Date:
inclusive: 1897-circa 1949
bulk: 1940-1948
… Gabersee displaced persons camp in Germany. Included are photographs from Budapest, Bratislava, Gabersee, and a small amount of pre-war family photographs…
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 … small amount of pre-war family photographs. Documents include a Christian identity paper issued by the Polish Ministerium in Hungary to Simon and Czarna…
43. Leon and Rebeka Ilutovich collection
Document | Accession Number: 2000.22.2
Date:
inclusive: circa 1911-1983
bulk: 1930-1948
… the Executive Committee of Polish War Refugees in Shanghai. From 1945 to 1946, he worked as the Secretary of the World Jewish Congress in China. He…
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 … records, identification records, newspapers, printed notices, ephemera, photographs, and photograph albums. The collection also includes photographs of the…
44. Fritz Grünberg papers
2015.468.1 Box 1 Folder 4 Image 5
Document | Accession Number: 2015.468.1
Date:
inclusive: 1922-1979
bulk: 1940-1945
… States prior to World War II. Fritz was a businessman and moved to Amsterdam around 1937. In 1939 he lost his German citizenship. He married to Ingeborg…
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 … collection consists of biographical materials, including identification papers, correspondence, and immigration documents; photographs; and material related to…
45. William and Helen Luksenburg photograph collection
1988.132.4 Box 1 Folder 8 Image 3
Document | Accession Number: 1988.132.4
Date:
interview: circa 1918-circa 1949
…The William and Helen Luksenburg photograph collection consists of pre-war, wartime, and post-war photographs of relatives of the Luksenburg and…
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 … William and Helen Luksenburg photograph collection consists of pre-war, wartime, and post-war photographs of relatives of the Luksenburg and Chilewicz…
46. Shadur family papers
1997.A.0316.1 Box 4 Folder 2 Image 62
Document | Accession Number: 1997.A.0316.1
Date:
inclusive: 1913-1997
… to Michael. After the war, Michel joined the United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration. He was sent to Germany and served as a supply…
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 … cards, and other various material. Also included are photographs, records concerning Michael’s time serving with the United Nations Relief and…
47. Hildegard Simon papers
Document | Accession Number: 2019.601.1
Date:
inclusive: 1935-2013
… (1884-1943) was a World War I veteran and worked as a horse and cattle trader. Selma (née Katz, 1894-1943) was born in Bad Arolson, Germany and was the…
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 … Simon papers include biographical material, correspondence, poesie albums, and photographs relating to Hildegard “Hilde” Hanna Simon and her family…
48. Riesenfeld family papers
2017.389.1 Box 1 Folder 29 Image 20
Document | Accession Number: 2017.389.1
Date:
inclusive: 1897-2001
bulk: 1938-1949
… Frieda’s mother, Dora Swabacher, and her uncle Anton Schwabacher. Also includes some post-war correspondence with friends and relatives. Photographs…
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 … Swabacher, and her uncle Anton Schwabacher. Also includes some post-war correspondence with friends and relatives. Photographs consist of depictions of the…
49. Rachel Greene Rottersman papers
2015.110.1 Image 6 Folder 17 Image 4
Document | Accession Number: 2015.110.1
Date:
inclusive: 1936-2015
bulk: 1944-1949
… Rottersman during her career with UNRRA and her work at the children’s home at Aglasterhausen, Germany, assisting displaced children after World War II.…
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 …; photographs of children and employees at Aglasterhausen; and printed materials about UNRRA’s work with displaced children. Languages: English, German…
50. Felix and Flory Van Beek collection
1990.23.241 Box 1 Folder 25 Image 13
Document | Accession Number: 1990.23.241
Date:
inclusive: circa 1930-1990
… the fates of her family members. Photographs depict Felix and Flory Van Beek, the Brandsen and Hornsveld families who hid them during the war, and Flory…
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 … family members. Photographs depict Felix and Flory Van Beek, the Brandsen and Hornsveld families who hid them during the war, and Flory’s mother Alijda…