Ernst Jakob Hesdörffer was the son of Karl Hesdörffer and Johanna Joseph. His father, a well to do merchant, died in Kreuznach in 1934. In March 1939 Ernst Jakob and his brother came to the Netherlands in one of the German 'children's transports'. From there he was brought to the Jewish orphanage in Gouda, where he selebrated his bar mitzva. Later the Katan family in Dordrecht took him in to their…