Source: Yad Vashem
Willem Roco had agreed with his good school-days friend, Wilhelm (Wim) Gieben, both living in Rotterdam, that the latter would try and take care of the Roco children, Annette, b.1938, and Emile, b.1933, in the event that the Roco family would be ordered for “work in the East” - an euphemism for the death camps. Indeed, in the fall of 1942, Willem and Elizabeth Roco (née Katan)…