Well-worn shoulder blades of illegal slaughtered cows, filed, sanded, polished and engraved by Kurt Schön Dorff and Edgard Weinberg with Chinese or Japanese drawings from old art books which were sold in Amsterdam against high prices as pieces of ivory in order to provide in the hiding there.This item was manufactured in January 1944.
Hiding place 3: the entire shelter as drawed through two room walls. To the left is the entrance where laundry bags are hanging and to see is a small part of the middle room. To the right the next room is to see, where the length of the loft lies behind. In the shelter two beds with heads against each other. Radio, reading light, Telephone, etchings, family snapshots, the map of Tunis and Russia. Behind the cardboard wall, photo album, laundry. The corner in front, yellow silk “pour faire joli”, an etching, a suitcase and a flask to pee in an emergency.
Blaricum, 1943
The current residents of the house on the Bijenstand 1 at Laren have this plaque at the front door to remember the people in hiding who no longer returned from the German concentration camps.
From this house Jan Bartels as one of the first, did his resistance actions against the Germans. He was arrested there on 26 September 1941 and never returned from captivity. His wife, Annie Bartels-Striethorst, has hided in this house the couple Kattenburg, Kurt Schöndorff & Ella Meijer and Edgar Weinberg against the persecution of Jews.On 16 February 1944 a raid was committed by traitors. Only Ella Schöndorff managed to escape. Of all other residents only Edgar Weinberg returned from Auschwitz.Later an illegal radio station and weapons depot were located here. The daughter of the house, Els Bartels, fought alongside the vigilante group "Nijmegen" against the enemy.
Ruben Meijer was a son of Philip Meijer and Julia Fröhlich. He married 19 December 1906 in Zutphen to Mietje de Winter, a daughter of Emanuel de Winter and Elsken Gomperts. The couple had two daughter: Philippine and a daugher Ella (married to 456041), who has survived the Holocaust.
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I am extremely interested in this family. Ruben Meijer and Mietje de Winter were my grandparents, as well as those of my (half-) brother, Rolf Schöndorff. Both Rolf and I are sons of Ella Meijer. Her first husband, Kurt Schöndorff, was murdered in Auschwitz. I would be very interested in any documen…
Ruben is een z0on van Philip Meijer en Julia Fröhlich. Hij trouwde met Mietje de Winter (Amsterdam, 30 november 1886), de archiefkaart vermeldt geen trouwdatum.
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Philippine, 8 oktober 1907
Ella, 31 juli 1911
Ruben is in 1907 vanuit Zutphen in Amsterdam komen wonen. Vanaf april 1937 woont …
Ruben Meijer en zijn vrouw Mietje kwamen op 13 juli 1944 aan in Westerbork. Ze werden geplaats in strafbarak 67. Samen gingen ze op 3-9-1944 op transp…