Bernard Herman van Blankenstein

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Bernard Herman van Blankenstein, birth 1890 Rotterdam, died 25 Dec 1945 Groningen, occupation: Verffabrikant to:
Frieda Philipstein

1) Theodora van Blankenstein, alias: Doris, Dora, birth 21 Apr 1922 Haren, died 4 MRT 2001 Charleston, SC, VS to:
Albert Gosschalk, alias: Berti, Bert, birth 13 Apr 1920 Wijhe, died 18 Dec 1991 Charleston, SC, VS, son of Jozef Gosschalk and Saartje van Spiegel
Albert en Benny worden genoemd als resp. speler en speler dansensemble in Revue "De verfpot", tekst der liederen gezongen. Kinderfeest 40-jarig bestaan synagoge Deventer 11-09-1932. Auteur J.M. Noach.
Zij zijn aan onderduik geholpen in Vaassen door schoonouders van zijn neef Bennie (zoon van Jule Gosschalk, 1882), Pieter en Swaantje Broeders uit Vaassen. Bert en Doris zijn gepakt in feb '45 en bevrijd in Westerbork in april '45. 2 mnd later wer d hun kind geboren. Yad Vashem 1982. Blz 164, The Encyclopedia of the Righteous Among the Nations, Rescuers of Jews during the Holocaust. The Netherlands, Yad Vashem, Jerusalem 2004. Dochters van Albert en Doris zijn: Frieda Catharina Antonia (geb . Groningen) en Josine Beryl (geb. Oss).

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Albert Gosschalk was born in Wijhe, the Netherlands, in 1920. By 1923, he and his family had moved to Deventer, the Netherlands, where he was the only Jew in his school class. In 1939, after finishing school, he obtained an apprenticeship in th e meatpacking business, in order to learn the family trade.

In 1940, after the German occupation of the Netherlands, Gosschalk went into hiding with his wife, Doris. After brief stays with several Dutch families willing to hide them for money, the couple moved to a small wooden cottage in the woods outsid e of Deventer. Gosschalk took part in the Dutch resistance movement. Both he and his wife were captured and arrested in January 1945 after a failed resistance effort to blow up a nearby railroad.

The Gosschalks spent the rest of the war imprisoned by the Nazis, first in a local jail and then at Westerbork concentration camp in the Netherlands. After the camp was liberated by the Allies in April 1945, Gosschalk was chosen to help prepare th e camp to house imprisoned Dutch Nazis and assist in its operation. He served in this capacity for three months before returning to Deventer with his wife and infant daughter. The family eventually joined Gosschalk's brother in the United State s in 1951 and settled in Charleston, South Carolina, around 1962.

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