Elias (Elis) Pakkedrager and his family during and after the war

Elias Pakkedrager gave mathematics lessons on the Jewish High school, Joodsche HBS, in Amsterdam.
Elias, his wife Sarah, their two children Yehuda and Elishewa and Sara's mother came all five via Westerbork to Bergen Belsen. The eldest son of Elias and Sarah, Abraham, died in 1943 in Amsterdam when he was hit by a shard of anti-aircraft artillery.
Elias died on April 20, 1945, three days after the British liberated Bergen Belsen. His wife Sarah died a few months earlier on December 29, 1944, also in Bergen Belsen.
Yehoshua and Henny Birnbaum, who also took care of Yehuda and Elishewa, held an orphanage and added orphans wherever they met them along the way from the Westerbork days through their stay in Bergen Belsen and after the war.