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PHILIP VAN DER LAAN, alias: FILIP VAN DER LAAN, birth 30 Aug 1873 ASSEN, died 08 Oct 1942 AUSCHWITZ, HOLOCAUST VICTIM, occupation: SLAGER, De slagerij van de familie,opgericht door zijn vader Marcus,
en zich bevindende aan de Kleine Marktstraat te Assen,
werd door hem geleid vanaf het jaar 1917., son of MARCUS VAN DER LAAN and MALCHE PHILIPSON
Married 26 Jun 1907 GROENLO to:
ESTELLA MOGENDORFF, alias: STELLA MOGENDORFF, ESSTELLA MOGENDORFF, birth 24 Aug 1883 GROENLO, died 08 Oct 1942 AUSCHWITZ, HOLOCAUST VICTIM, daughter of HERTOG MOGENDORFF and META FRANKENHUIS
1) MARTHA VAN DER LAAN, birth 26 Feb 1908 ASSEN, Boven de slagerij op de Markt, died 22 Jun 2000 SWAMPSCOTT,MA,USA, occupation: TELEFONISTE, lives: , Tijdens verloving-KLEINE MARKTSTRAAT 7 to:
ARNOLD WOLF, birth 22 May 1908 STADSKANAAL, died 08 Dec 1975 MALDEN,MA,USA, occupation: EXPORTEUR, lives: , JAVASTRAAT 2, son of BENJAMIN WOLF and JETTCHEN BLUMENKROHN
Testimony:-

I was born in Assen, Holland in 1908 to Philip (b. 1873 d. 1972**) and Estella (b. 1873 d. 1942) van der Laan Wolf.

Before World War 2 broke out, I traveled with my husband and son between France and Holland. When conditions began to deteriorate, we realized that we had to leave. With money and a check from Catholic friends hidden in my son's teddy bear , we journeyed from France across the Mediterranean over the Sahara Desert to Casablanca and Morocco. I was thirty-two years old and pregnant with my second child. My resourceful husband managed to find an uncle in Ohio who signed an affidavi t for us and sent six hundred dollars for the Greek boat to the USA.

Upon our arrival in New York on August 1, 1940, my husband lifted our son Bert in the air to show him the statue of liberty. I corresponded with my parents through 1942 until they were taken to Auschwitz and gassed upon arrival.

After the war, my husband learned that his mother survived because she boarded with friends where everyone thought of her as just 'grandma'. The teddy bear is now in Vermont in Bert's ski house.

I have two sons, four grandchildren and two great-grandchildren.

*Deceased

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**-must be 1942
2) META VAN DER LAAN, birth 21 May 1914 ASSEN, died Apr 1989 MALDEN,MA,USA, occupation: SECRETARESSE to:
MAURITS (MAU KATS) KATS, alias: MAURICE KATS, birth 07 Sep 1913 SLEEN, died Sep 1963 MALDEN,MA,USA, son of MOZES KATS and SAARTJE FROUWINA MAGNUS
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