Felix David Eliazar

Felix was part of the Resistance in The Netherlands.  When he was arrested the first time, he realized he could not help his family any more because he was too well-known in Holland.  He took a new identity and signed up for a job in a factory in Germany, where he continued his resistance activity.  He was instrumental in publishing an underground newspaper, "The Locomotif".  In December 1943, he was found out and arrested in Germany.  After intense interrogations and a stint in a Work Camp, he was sent to Jawichowitz in 1944.  The Soviet Army liberated that camp January 1945.  He returned home to find out 65 members of his family had been killed, as well as his fiance and many friends.  Later he became part of the Dutch Army in Jakarta.  When he realized later in life that there was a revival of anti-Semitism and Holocaust denial, he revisited those painful memories.  He spoke to many  school groups and worked with the Holocaust Museum in St. Petersburg, FL, hoping that by giving that time a voice, he could help insure 'it would never happen again.'  He wrote a memoir (175288-A Survivor Remembers) of his experience.  There is also a chapter in Damsigt, een wijk apart about his family.