Link: https://collections.ushmm.org/search/catalog/irn516935
Abraham Henselyn discusses his childhood and youth in Amsterdam, Netherlands; the changes he experienced after the occupation of Amsterdam by Nazi Germany; his work for the Jewish Council, acting as an intermediary between German troops and Jewish citizens; his parents' and one brother's deportation to Westerbork concentration camp; going into hiding with the assistance of another brother; his experiences hiding in the attic of a Dutch family in October 1943; learning that a brother and his family were hiding in a location close by; moving into hiding with his family when his own situation became too dangerous; remaining in hiding until liberation; his marriage, work, and family life after the war; and his immigration with his family to the United States in 1954, where he settled in San Francisco.