Biography

About Lilli Kellner

Lilli Kellner arrived in the Netherlands as a German refugee on 22 November 1938. She was taken in at various assembly points for Palestine Pioneers. From 5 January 1940 until 7 December 1942 she lived as a ward at the youth aliyah home in Loosdrecht, the Paviljoen Loosdrechtse Rade. Afterwards she went into hiding. She left her hiding place to try to escape to Switzerland together with seven other Palestine Pioneers (Siegbert Leo Adler, Bernard Aschheim, Robert Jozef Dürheim, Juda Pinkhof, Fabian Schön, Jossel Waldmann and Esra Jurovics). They were caught at the Belgian border.
F. van der Straaten, Om nooit te vergeten. Herinneringen en belevenissen aan/van Palestina-Pioniers gedurende de oorlogsjaren 1939-1945 (Mijnsheerenland s.a.) 87, 214

This person is commemorated on a memorial in Loosdrecht. More information on this memorial can be found (in Dutch) on the website of the Nationaal Comité 4 en 5 mei.

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