Eline Hoekstra-Dresden collection

Document | Accession Number: 2000.275

Contains documents issued to Eline Dresden and her father, Professor Daniel Dresden, while interned at Westerbork transit camp in the Netherlands.

Document Creator: Eline Hoekstra-Dresden
Biography: Eline Hoekstra Dresden was born on January 4, 1923 in the Hague, Netherlands to Daniel Dresden and his wife and had three siblings. Her family moved to Utrecht when she was two years old. Her family took in two Jewish refugee children from Germany, but after the German invasion of the Netherlands the two children were forced to leave. Eline’s son, Daniel, was born in 1941 and they went into hiding with her family. In 1943, Eline and her parents were deported to an internment camp in Barneveld, Netherlands. They were later sent to the Westerbork concentration camp until liberation in April 1945.
Topical Term: Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Netherlands.
Personal Name: Hoekstra-Dresden, Eline.
Dresden, Daniel.
Corporate Name: Westerbork (Concentration camp)
Legal Status: Permanent Collection
Provenance: Eline Hoekstra-Dresden donated the collection to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 2000.
Conditions on Access: No restrictions on access
Conditions on Use: Restrictions on use. Donor will sign Deed of Gift agreement B
: Record last modified: 2020-06-10 15:21:31
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