Portrait of a half-Jewish family shortly after liberation.

Photograph | Photograph Number: 12747

Date: 1945 October 09
Photo Designation: DISPLACED PERSONS/RETURN TO LIFE -- DP Camps/Postwar Communities -- Netherlands
Photo Credit: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, courtesy of Betty and Rene Braat

Biography: Betty and Rene Braat are the daughter and son of a Jewish mother and a Christian father, Jan Braat and Maria Bertha Braat Mooleman. Maria's father Barend Mooleman was a diamond cutter, and she had four siblings. Betty was born in 1936, and Rene was born in 1944; both in Amsterdam. In 1942 Maria's parents Barend Mooleman and Saartje Mooleman Fransman were deported to Auschwitz where they perished. Maria's brother Hymen was also deported to concentration camp and he perished in Bergen Belsen in 1945 at the age of 34. Since the Braats were only half Jewish, they were exempt from deportation for most fo the war. However, when the Nazis began deporting half-Jews, in February 1945, Betty and Rene hid with relatives of their father, the Seubring family, on a farm in Westerbork. Hymen's son Bertil Mooleman (b. 1943) also survived in hiding. His mother Rebecca Mooleman Klok survived Ravensbrueck, remarried and moved to Israel. After the war Rene and Betty's parents had a third child.
Keyword: CHILDREN (0-3 YEARS)
CHILDREN (4-12 YEARS)
DUTCH
FAMILIES (INTERMARRIED JEWISH)
FAMILIES (POSTWAR JEWISH)
JEWS (DUTCH)
JEWS IN HIDING (AFTER THE EXPERIENCE)
WOMEN
Photo Source: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

Copyright: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

Provenance: Betty and Rene Braat

Source Record ID: Collections: 2005.52.1
: Record last modified: 2017-05-26 00:00:00
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