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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
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 -------------------------------- **-must be 1942 |
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1) BERTIL FELIX WOLF living - details excluded to: BARBARA RUSTEIN living - details excluded |
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2) FRANK WOLF living - details excluded to: SUSAN GALE STERNHELL, birth 11 Apr 1943 LYNBROOK,NY,USA, died 21 May 1988 NEW YORK,USA, daughter of CHARLES STERNHELL and MABEL LYONS |