Ernst Obermeijer grew up in Germany. He came to the Netherlands to study at the trade school for leather workers. He rented a room in Waalwijk and worked at a flowershop to make money. Ernst befriended his neighbors, and when he was deported to Westerbork on August 28th 1942, said goodbye to them by sticking his hand through the window, since he was not allowed to enter the house of a non-Jewish …