The six youngest children from the family of Bernard Speijer and Marianna à Catan, were accommodated in orphanages in the autumn of 1942. It then concerned the 10-year old Simon and the 11-year old Jozef and their four sisters, the 5-year old Rachel, the 7-year old Elisabeth, the 12-year old Dora and the 13-year old Greta.
The reason was that their mother, Marianna à Catan, had died shortly before…