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Rudi Dingfelder in the Netherlands after the war. [Photograph #31709]

2

Letter to relatives from Rudi Dingfelder describing his experiences during the war. [Photograph #31674]

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Document issued to Rudi Dingfelder by the Gemeentelijk Inglichtingenbureau voor Joden. [Photograph #31675]

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Rudi Dingfelder on his first day of school, holding the traditional Schultuete [a school cone] filled with candies. [Photograph #31728]

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Members of the Dingfelder family sitting on the grass. [Photograph #32472]

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Studio portrait of the Dingfelder family. [Photograph #31763]

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Picture postcard of toddler (Rudi Dingfelder?) in a white winter coat and cap standing by a wicker chair. [Photograph #31727]

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Portrait of the Dingfelder family. [Photograph #31729]

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The Dingfelder family, (left to right) Leopold, Johanna, and their son, Rudi, enjoying drinks on board the SS St. Louis. [Photograph #31698]

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Members of the Dingfelder family board the SS St. Louis in Hamburg harbor. [Photograph #31702]

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Members of the Dingfelder family stand at the entrance to their butcher shop in Plauen, Germany. [Photograph #31765]

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View of the Dingfelder family's butcher shop in Plauen, Germany. [Photograph #46053]

13

Close-up portrait of Carla Dotsch after the war. [Photograph #26037]

14

Max and Miep van Engel vacation in Friesland where they went to sail with their father a few years after the end of the war. [Photograph #21302]

15

Lina Kaufmann brings her daughter Marion back to Amsterdam with her after each had hidden separately during the war. [Photograph #05725]

16

Exterior view of the house that Birnbaums used after the war for their children's home. [Photograph #79200]

17

Suse Grunbaum lies in an attic storeroom at the home of Bernard and Mina Hartemink in Sinderen, the Netherlands, where she was hidden during the war. [Photograph #89646]

18

Members of the van Dam family poses for a group portrait after the war. [Photograph #43158]

19

Hennie and Yehoshua Birnbaum sit together after the war and look at a photograph. [Photograph #79180]

20

Suse and Kate Grunbaum lie in an attic storeroom at the home of Bernard and Mina Hartemink in Sinderen, the Netherlands, where she was hidden during the war. [Photograph #46957]

21

Members of the Dingfelder family standing with their suitcases on a railway platform. [Photograph #32473]

22

A Jewish mother retrieves her two daughters after the war from their hiding places. [Photograph #15611]

23

Note scribbled on a napkin by MS St. Louis passenger Leopold Dingfelder requesting that his family be given permission to disembark in London because his brother Carl Felder had traveled there from Cleveland, Ohio to help him. [Photograph #38568]

24

A young Jewish girl poses with the couple who hid her during the German occupation of Holland, prior to leaving their home after the war. [Photograph #60718]

25

Manuela (left) and Jacqueline Mendels hug each other outside the home of their uncle, Majoor Albert Van Weenen, where they have come after the war to reunite with surviving relatives. [Photograph #42086]

26

Portrait of Frieda Belinfante after her return to the Netherlands from the refugee camp in Switzerland. [Photograph #48757]

27

Group portrait of the Brilleslijper family. [Photograph #89828]

28

Suse Grunbaum poses in a raincoat one year after her family's arrival in the Netherlands. [Photograph #29613]

29

A Jewish father reunites with his daughter at the home of her rescuers shortly after the end of the war. [Photograph #21270]

30

Ina Soep goes for a bicycle ride in the countryside shortly after the German invasion of The Netherlands. [Photograph #46344]

31

Young people dance at a party shortly after the German invasion of The Netherlands. [Photograph #46353]

32

Studio portrait of Yaakov, Schmuel, and Zvi Birnbaum shortly after the war. [Photograph #79154]

33

A mother plays with her three children in the yard of their home in Heemstede, Holland. [Photograph #57795]

34

Ina and Josette Soep stand outside in eastern Holland shortly after their return to The Netherlands following liberation. [Photograph #46354]

35

Portrait of Erica Polak after the liberation. [Photograph #89826]

36

Felix Tikotin pushes his daughter Leentje in a baby carriage down a street in The Hague either right before or right after the German invasion of The Netherlands. [Photograph #92092]

37

Max and Miep van Engel celebrate Purim by dressing up in traditional Dutch costumes. [Photograph #21304]

38

Group portrait of family and friends at the wedding of a young Jewish couple, Blanka Deutsch and Rudi Apler, in Ludbreg, Croatia. [Photograph #56525]

39

A young Jewish child sits in the garden of her Dutch rescuers' home wearing a sweater made by her mother prior to her deportation. [Photograph #60716]

40

Group portrait of the Mendels family in The Netherlands. [Photograph #33711]

41

Studio portrait of a Dutch Jewish family taken either right before or right after the German invasion of the Netherlands. [Photograph #21273]

42

The wedding of Julius Jacob Zion to Nora de Jong at the synagogue in Enschede. [Photograph #37326]

43

Simon and Elvire Mendels sit in the kitchen of the Hotel de Aardbol in Amsterdam. [Photograph #33710]

44

Bep Meyer (left) with her parents after the wedding of her brother-in-law, Zadok Zion. [Photograph #25287]

45

Bep Meyer with two young Jewish men from Germany, who worked on a hachshara [Zionist agricultural training farm] in the Boekelo region. [Photograph #37309]

46

Studio portrait of three Jewish sisters in The Netherlands. [Photograph #26171]

47

Members of Maccabi Hatzair rest in a field in the Netherlands. [Photograph #71397]

48

Portrait of the Cohen family shortly after Rosalee's birth. [Photograph #42670]

49

Elchanan Tal poses in a classroom of the Jewish school in Amsterdam either shortly before or shortly after the German invasion. [Photograph #97941]

50

Bep Meyer and Gerta Sayet visit with the Leuverink family on the porch of their home. [Photograph #25309]

51

Rosalee Cohen with her rescuers, the Bronsink family. [Photograph #42671]

52

Portrait of a German Jewish refugee at the Westerbork camp before the German occupation of the Netherlands. [Photograph #19264]

53

Two German Jewish refugees pose outside at the Westerbork refugee camp before the German occupation of the Netherlands. [Photograph #19263]

54

Employees of the Zion clothing and fabric store make preparations for the official re-opening of the business six months after the liberation. [Photograph #25314]

55

Two Dutch Jewish brothers pose with the woman who served as their surrogate mother in Theresienstadt and their cousins who cared for them after the war. [Photograph #63719]

56

Jewish teenagers wearing Jewish stars dance at a party hosted by Rudy Acohen shortly before he was arrested in a reprisal action and sent to Auschwitz where he perished. [Photograph #46357]

57

Two Jewish sisters who survived the war in hiding pose together after the war on a street in Belgium. [Photograph #61106]

58

Two young Jewish children sit in front of a lighted Hanukkah menorah at the first postwar family Hanukkah celebration at the Zion home in Eibergen. [Photograph #37331]

59

Dutch civilians celebrate their liberation by Allied troops. [Photograph #50999]

60

Jacob and David Gutgeld pose with their father after being reunited in Palestine after the war. [Photograph #01066]

61

Portrait of a German Jewish refugee at the Westerbork camp before the German occupation of the Netherlands. [Photograph #19265]

62

Two Jewish couples and their attendants file out of the city hall in Boekelo after a joint civil marriage ceremony. [Photograph #25292]

63

Jewish refugees doing construction work at the Westerbork camp before the German occupation of the Netherlands. [Photograph #19272]

64

Portrait of a man painted by Erich Geiringer while in hiding. [Photograph #55012]

65

Three young men pose for a photograph at the children's home of Chateau de la Hille, two years prior to joining the resistence

Pictured left: Rudi Oehlbaum, Egon Berlin and Joseph Dortort. All three joined the French Maquis resistance fighters in 1944 at age 16 and fought in a battle at Roquefixade in July 1944. Egon and 16 young French fighters were killed in this battle. Oehlbaum and Dortort survived the war. [Photograph #46280]

66

Group portrait of Dutch soldiers mobilized to fight in the First World War. [Photograph #36352]

67

Portrait of a half-Jewish family shortly after liberation. [Photograph #12747]

68

Marion Kaufmann visits the family who hid her during the war. [Photograph #05726]

69

Portrait of Fritzi Geirnger painted by her husband Erich while in hiding. [Photograph #55013]

70

Marion Kaufmann visits the Beelen family farm for the last time before her immigration to the United States. [Photograph #05727]

71

Portrait of Georges Abramowicz taken shortly after he was reunited with his parents after having been hidden during the war. [Photograph #60246]

72

Four young girls, including two sisters in hiding, carry garlands of flowers to celebrate the end of the war. [Photograph #15744]

73

Portrait of Fritzi Geiringer painted by her husband Erich while he was in hiding. [Photograph #55011]

74

Suse and her father, Max Grunbaum shortly after liberation. [Photograph #29620]

75

Illustrated bar graph showing the Jewish population of Europe before and after the war, and the number of Jewish students in Europe before and after the war. [Photograph #32448]

76

Malvina Grunfeld visits her family's former home in Trebisov after the war. [Photograph #95569]

77

Studio portrait of Anita Randerath, a young Jewish girl and cousin of the donor, who was killed shortly after this photo was taken. [Photograph #98176]

78

Two Jewish women, who were hidden by the Leuverink family during the war, pose with their rescuers on the occasion of the engagement of their children, Zus and Gerbrandt Leuverink. [Photograph #37343]

79

Portrait of the three sisters in The Netherlands during the war shortly before they went into hiding. [Photograph #26005]

80

Standing on a chair in the middle of Hagen Street in Eibergen, a local resident delivers a speech at a public celebration of the liberation of eastern Holland. [Photograph #37342]

81

Manfred Grunbaum holds his daughter, Dorien, on his shoulder shortly after their return to Holland. [Photograph #42532]

82

Landscape painting drawn by Heinz Geiringer, a Jewish teenager in Amsterdam, while in hiding to keep himself occupied. [Photograph #55010]

83

John Weidner is presented with the Medal of Freedom by an American officer in recognition of his rescue efforts during World War II. [Photograph #90669]

84

A Belgian-Jewish family walks down a street in Brussels holding hands after being reunited after the war. [Photograph #69426]

85

Jaap and Clara Vromen, a Dutch Jewish brother and sister work, at a desk a few months after the German invasion. [Photograph #43143]

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View of the bunker that served as a hiding place for Dutch Jews in the Eibergen region in 1942-1943. [Photograph #25307]

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View of the bunker that served as a hiding place for Dutch Jews in the Eibergen region in 1942-1943. [Photograph #25304]

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View of the bunker that served as a hiding place for Dutch Jews in the Eibergen region in 1942-1943. [Photograph #25303]

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View of the bunker that served as a hiding place for Dutch Jews in the Eibergen region in 1942-1943. [Photograph #25302]

90

A Belgian-Jewish family poses on the terrace of a building after being reunited after the war. [Photograph #69431]

91

Friederike Oppenheimer cradles her newborn son, Rudi, while his older brother Paul looks on. [Photograph #57793]

92

Lehman van Gelder takes his nine-year-old grand nephew, Sallo Menco, for a ride on a sheep. [Photograph #37311]

93

An aerial view of Amsterdam, taken before the war for German military use. [oversized photo] [Photograph #04143]

94

A vent that was installed in a bunker that served as a hiding place for Dutch Jews in the Eibergen region in 1942-1943. [Photograph #25306]

95

Dutch soldiers play cards inside a barracks during the Phony War. [Photograph #23779]

96

Postwar portrait of Kathinka Anita Bosch who had been hiding. [Photograph #89829]

97

Portrait of a Jewish child, who had survived the war in hiding, in Lodz soon after the liberation. [Photograph #09353]

98

Queen Wilhelmina acknowledges the salute of a troop of Boy Scouts at Bergen op Zoom. [Photograph #51139]

99

Studio portrait of Eva Geiringer (later Schloss) after her return to Amsterdam following her liberation from Auschwitz. [Photograph #55020]

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Invitation to the reopening of the Zion clothing and fabric store in Eibergen, which includes a brief account of its history during the war. [Photograph #25300]