I don’t remember the reason, but at any rate, sometime in 1941 I had to leave the
Krammer family in Zwolle. They took me to a family by the name of Cohen in
Amsterdam. The Cohens used to live at Boerhaave Plein 16 on the second and third
floor. Mrs. Sara Cohen was a widow, and her daughters Keetje, Miriam, and Greetje,
as well as her son, Samuel comprised the family. Besides myself, yet another German
Jewish lad by the name of Harry Gaertner had found a home with the Cohen family.
He was a little older than I.
Apartment house Boerhaave Plein #
14-18 - Alfred Strauss took this
photo in 2000, when he retraced the
tracks of his exile. The entrance in
the middle leads to the former
apartment of the Cohen family on
the second, and third floor.
