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BENJAMIN WOLF, birth 02 Aug 1859 NIEUW-BUINEN, died 15 Feb 1926 STADSKANAAL
Zoon van Jozef WOLF & Grietje COHEN (Getr. 12-01-1854 te Onstwegge)(knd.nr.3 uit 6)

Jozef Wolf-geb.21-06-1828-Vlagtwedde
ovl.29-06-1905-Stadskanaal
zoon van Wolf Jozef & Aaltje Salomons Frank

Grietje Cohen-geb.09-03-1829 Veendam
ovl.04-07-1913 Onstwedde
dochter van Nathan Samuels Cohen & Hester-Esther Koppel Levitus

Married 31 May 1895 ONSTWEGGE to:
JETTCHEN BLUMENKROHN, birth 04 Oct 1871 BEISEFORTH(DTSL.)
Dochter van Herz Blumenkrohn & Beschen-Betty David(Knd. nr.3 uit 3)

Herz Blumenkrohn-geb.14-04-1828 Beiseforth(Dtsl.)
ovl.22-09-1909 Hoogezand
zoon van Aron Blumenkrohn & Carolina Catz


Beschen-Betty David-geb.03-07-1831 Rohrenfurth (Dtsl.)
ovl.21-02-1911 Hoogezand
dochter van Salomon David & Adelheid Levie
1) ARNOLD WOLF, birth 22 May 1908 STADSKANAAL, died 08 Dec 1975 MALDEN,MA,USA, occupation: EXPORTEUR, lives: , JAVASTRAAT 2 to:
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, daughter of PHILIP VAN DER LAAN and ESTELLA MOGENDORFF
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
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