Esther Smit-van Dam

Maurits Smit was a son of Isaac Smit and Elisabeth Bierman, and a grandson of Nathan Smit and Heintje de Wolff. His parents survived the Holocaust but his grandparents were killed in Auschwitz during the Shoah. He was born I a family with seven children, namely Hendrika in 1898, mostly named Henriette, Nathan in 1902, Rozette in 1908, Jacob in 1911, Abraham in 1917 and Maurits self in 1900. Sadly …

The third Jewish transport of the year 1944, the 25th convoy of 19 May 1944, is a small convoy: “only” 507 people, including 58 children. It was assembled 1 ½ month after the previous convoy, already from 4 April 1944 and testifies to the stronger hunt for the Jews following the instructions of March. Since 5 April, the average number of registrations in Mechelen has risen to 15 people a day. Alth…