So many more

Most of the children who had left the orphanage before 17^th March 1943 were deported. Karel van Santen was caught with his brother Philip in the razzias in Amsterdam in February 1941. They were deported to Buchenwald, Mauthausen, and Schloss Hartheim. The life of Barend Bora Kool illustrates the social circumstances which brought many children into orphanage care: large extended families, poverty, death of a parent, poverty, multiple marriages. One boy was caught by the Germans while living in hiding in Belgium, another in France. The family of Sally Montezinos illustrates how terribly effective the Holocaust was in the Netherlands. The entire family of 20 people, living in various places in the country, was caught and murdered. Even the memory of their existence as a family was almost lost.