Jaap en Ischa Meijer. Een joodse geschiedenis 1912-1956, een joodse geschiedenis, 1912-1956

A biography of the lives of Jaap Meijer (1912-1993), who was born in Winschoten (Drente), and became a Hebrew teacher, and his son Israël Chajjiem, Isga or Ischa (1943-1995), who became a journalist. In 1940, Jaap married Liesje Voet, daughter of Ies Voet. Pp. 144-369 deal with the Holocaust period. Ies Voet was a member of the Amsterdam Jewish Council and managed to postpone the deportation of his daughter's family. Jaap, in spite of the German occupation, received his PhD in Jewish history. During a roundup in 1943 the couple and their baby son, as well as Ies Voet, were caught and deported to Westerbork. Jaap, while forced to work on a farm, became a member of the Westerbork Jewish Council and obtained papers for Palestine, thus further postponing deportation. They were taken to Bergen-Belsen with the last transport in February 1944 and liberated in April 1945. Describes the conditions in the two concentration camps, and relates that Jaap also lectured, like several other Dutch prisoners, for the inmates, and, being assigned to the kitchen detail, he stole food from the kitchen in order to help others. After the war, the Meijers had two more children (see the book by Mirjam Meijer, "Mijn broer Ischa" (1996).