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Emilie Strauss

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Emilie came to the Netherlands with her brother and sister on March 30th, 1939 with a Kindertransport. They first stayed in Rotterdam, and in August 1939 Emilie moved in with the van Essen family in Ommen.
Her parents, Lilly Wertheim (1903 Naumberg) and Josef (1896 Rotenkirchen) survived an extended stay in Riga, while Emilie's siblings survived in hiding in the Netherlands.
Source: National Archive, 2.04.58, inv. 130 and others.

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