Heintje (Helen) Groothuis-Coppenhagen

We have been unable to determine whether one or more members of this family survived the war. While their names do not appear on the lists of survivors, we have not been able to trace them in In Memoriam either. They are therefore labeled as 'surviving' and their names are not listed.

In addition, a Jokos file (number 36376) on this family is at the Amsterdam Municipal Archive. Access is subject…

My grandfather Jack Groothuis was born in 1944 in Vught, a small town in the Netherlands. Jack's mother Helen made the difficult choice to place my grandfather into hiding with a Christian family named the van den Meerendonks. This object written on September 11, 1945, is a letter between the family and Jack’s aunt Marian Schechter, who lived in an apartment on Riverside Drive in New York City. 
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