Figure 1.--This Dutch family took in a little Jewsish girl named Irma. The family was that of Martinus van de Tilaart. Here we see his daughter Annie and son Tonnie, we believe in 1943. They lived in the village of Zijtaart, a Catholic village in North Barbant near the Belgian border. This was very dangerous, both for van de Tilaart and his family. It is likely that most of his neigbors knew what he was doing, but no one reported him. A Dutch caption reads, "Annie, dochter van Martinus van de Tilaart (Hoeve Corsica) met vermoedelijk haar jongste broertje Tonnie en op de kruiwagen Irma, een Joods onderduikertje tijdens de oorlog. This wouls translate as, "Annie, daughter of Martinus van de Tillaart (Farm Corsica) with presumably her youngest little brother Tonnie and in the wheelbarrow Irma, a little Jewish "undergrounder" during the war". The word Hoeve means farm, but in America we would call it a ranch I think.

It is the accounts of the individual lives extinguished by the NAZIs that are most moving. The best known individual account of the Holocaust came out of the Netherlkands it was daiary kept by a young German refugee girl as she and her family his from the NAZIs. Ann Frank and her family almost survived. The NAZIs found them only a month before the Allies reached Amsterdam. The Franks and another family successfully hid for 25 months in a carefully hidden annex of rooms above her father’s former office. The Franls learned of the D-Day landings and begin to hope thatvthe Allies would soon liberate them. They were, however, betrayed to the NAZIs. Hitler and the NAZIs thought they could murder and destroy on traces of the Jews. Ironically it is Adolf Hitler's memoirs, Mein Kampf that today lies unread and largely forgotten--a distasteful footnote in history. The ideas expressed in it are now rejected and despised, while the book of the little girl they murdered continues to be read an inspire young people today. Ann left a record. Most of the children murdered by the NAZIs did not.

Ann Frank

The best known individual account of the Holocaust came out of the Netherlkands it was daiary kept by a young German refugee girl as she and her family his from the NAZIs. Ann Frank and her family almost survived. The NAZIs found them only a month before the Allies reached Amsterdam. The Franks and another family successfully hid for 25 months in a carefully hidden annex of rooms above her father’s former office. The Franls learned of the D-Day landings and begin to hope thatvthe Allies would soon liberate them. They were, however, betrayed to the NAZIs. Hitler and the NAZIs thought they could murder and destroy on traces of the Jews. Ironically it is Adolf Hitler's memoirs, Mein Kampf that today lies unread and largely forgotten--a distasteful footnote in history. The ideas expressed in it are now rejected and despised, while the book of the little girl they murdered continues to be read an inspire young people today.

Irma

This Dutch family took in a little Jewsish girl named Irma (figure 1). We do not know here last name. The family was that of Martinus van de Tilaart. Here we see his daughter Annie and son Tonnie, we believe in 1943. They lived in the village of Zijtaart, a Catholic village in North Barbant near the Belgian border. This was very dangerous, both for van de Tilaart and his family. We do not know how Irma came to the fmily. It is likely that most of his neigbors knew what he was doing, but no one reported him. We do know that Irma survived,

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