Nico Prins

Nico Prins had gone into hiding with his wife Suze Kogel and four others in the Valeriusstraat in Amsterdam, namely Lodewijk Jack Gompertz, his grandmother Kaatje Gompertz-Goudsmit, Saliena Vos and Heinz Alex Schulenklopper. They were given up to the police and were picked up on 22 September 1943 by members of the Kolonne Henneicke.
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Liesje (Liesbeth) Prins was born in Amsterdam on 25 December 1937 to Suze and Nico Prins. Shortly after, her mother began writing a diary (in Dutch) in an exercise book. By May 1939 she had already filled one book, and began another. The diaries document Liesje’s development from birth until 1942 when the diary abruptly ends. They reveal the depth of a mother’s love and joy at her growing child, a…