![]() ![]() Eva and Abraham's story was first published in 1988 by Teake Zijlstra, a journalist at the Leeuwarder Courant. The children's father and mother survived the Holocaust they were not told of their children's deaths until after the war. Eva was 11 years old and Abraham was 9 at the time of their deaths. The children were deported to the Auschwitz concentration camp and gassed to death immediately upon arrival. In February 1944, four Dutch policemen raided the home where the children where being housed, and after forcing Abraham to undress to reveal that he was circumcised, arrested them. ![]() They found that some people were willing, in return for payment, to reveal hiding places of Jewish children. They attended the local school, and were able to send letters (albeit in code) to their parents.īy 1944, the Nazis realized that Jewish children were being sent into hiding in rural villages. They were given new identities: Abraham was given the name Jan de Witt and Eva was Linni de Witt. Eva and her younger brother Abraham were sent to the town of Ermelo to live with a Christian family. The Beem parents, realizing that they were in danger, decided to go into hiding. When Nazi Germany invaded the country in 1940, the Nazis started to separate the Jews from the general population and prohibited them from working. Both parents were Jews, and active in the Jewish community. Their father, Hartog Beem, was a German teacher, and their mother was Rosette Beem. Eva (born ) and Abraham (born 13 June 1934) Beem were born in Leeuwarden, in the northern Netherlands. ![]()
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