The Beem children's story is on display at the Hollandsche Schouwburg (Dutch Theater) Holocaust memorial in Amsterdam this location served as a transit station for Jews being deported after July 1942, as well as in the Dutch Resistance Museum, a part of the Fries Museum in Leeuwarden. The surviving policeman was spared the death penalty because he was deemed to have acted in the line of duty. 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 were given new identities: Abraham was given the name Jan de Witt and Eva was Linni de Witt.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. 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. Jacobjen was born on October 26 1816, in Schoterland, Netherlands. Both parents were Jews, and active in the Jewish community. Abraham Johannes van Beem was born on month day 1840, at birth place, to Abraham Anthonie van Beem and Jacobjen van Beem (born Verschuil). Their father, Hartog Beem, was a German teacher, and their mother was Rosette Beem. They were both born in Leeuwarden, Holland. They were gassed to death upon their arrival on 6 March 1944.īiography Eva (born ) and Abraham (born 13 June 1934) Beem were born in Leeuwarden, in the northern Netherlands. Eva and Abraham Beem were the children of Hartog and Rosette Beem. They had been given new identities with a Christian family in an attempt to evade deportation by the Nazis, but were discovered and deported to Auschwitz concentration camp. Overledene: Eva Beem Geslacht: Vrouw Geboorteplaats: Leeuwarden Leeftijd: 12 Gebeurtenis: Overlijden Datum: maandag 6 maart 1944 Gebeurtenisplaats: Leeuwarden schriftelijk vanwege minster van justitieĮva and Abraham Beem were Dutch Jewish siblings and victims of the Holocaust in the Netherlands. Deze zijn te zien op de website van het Joods Historisch Museum. Van Eva Beem zijn een groot aantal brieven en kaarten bewaard. Toevoeging van een bezoeker van de website Zij was tijdens de oorlog ondergedoken maar werd verraden. Abraham, along with his older sister Eva, was deported to the Auschwitz death camp in Poland, where both were murdered upon arrival.Eva Beem was de dochter van jiddischist Hartog Beem. Nine year-old Abraham was denounced as a Jew in February 1944. They found collaborators willing to turn them in for payment. The Nazis, realizing that many Jewish children had been sent into hiding, intensified their search. He was known as Jan de Witt, and he attended school along with the other village children. Abraham was given a new name and identity. Abraham and his older sister were sent to the village of Ermelo, and a Christian family, willing to risk death to save them, was found. They felt that the children would be safer posing as non-Jews in a rural village. They were first taken to transit camps, and from there to death camps in Poland, where they were murdered.Ībraham's parents decided that the family would go into hiding. Beginning in mid-July 1942, the Germans began rounding up Holland's Jewish citizens. Many Jews were forced into restricted ghetto areas in July 1941, and after May 1942, all Jews had to wear the yellow star. But the Germans reacted brutally, and were able to break up most organized resistance. At first, the Dutch population resisted the anti-Jewish measures enacted by the Germans. The rich became poor and the middle class was reduced to subsistence levels. Beginning in October 1940, they liquidated Jewish businesses and banned Jews from most professions. When the Germans invaded, they immediately embarked upon steps to separate the Jews from the rest of the population. The Jews of the Netherlands were well-integrated into the general population and they were active in all aspects of the country's social, cultural and economic life. Abraham's father was a high school teacher in the small city of Leeuwarden, in northern Holland. Abraham, the son of Hartog and Rosette Beem, was a five year-old schoolboy when the Germans invaded Holland in May 1940.
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