![]() ![]() ![]() The surviving policeman was spared the death penalty because he was deemed to have acted in the line of duty. Eva, along with her younger brother Abraham, was soon deported to the Auschwitz death camp in Poland, where both were murdered upon arrival. Eleven year-old Eva was denounced as a Jew in February 1944. Eva and Abraham's story was first published in 1988 by Teake Zijlstra, a journalist at the Leeuwarder Courant. They found collaborators willing to turn them in for payment. 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. Cheers.-BabbaQ 18:52, 22 November 2014 (UTC) Im sorry, Im not sure what youre trying to get at. Thanks.-BabbaQ 18:39, 22 November 2014 (UTC) Fuebaey: lol, we get it you do not like our hooks and want to choose one yourself. Eva and her younger brother Abraham were sent to the town of Ermelo to live with a Christian family. Eva and Abraham Beem seems to be the best choice in my opinion. 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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