As of September 1941 the Jews had to
sew on to their clothes a yellow star
as big as the palm of a hand- the so
called ”Judenstern”; just like in Nazi
Germany. Milly and Alfred, too, had to
wear that star while being outside.
I remember vividly when we were forced to wear
the ‘Yellow Star’. Naturally did I wear this
”Judenstern”(Magen David ) on the way to school.
As a child one got somehow used to it; it was just
like part of our dress!
Sometime later, probably a few months after me,
my sister Emilie was also taken in by the Cohens,
and she lived there together with us.
One day the occupying forces asked for volunteers
to work in Poland. Since large-scale unemployment
existed, daughter Keetje and her husband Achem
volunteered to go, so I believe. The husband of the
Cohen daughter was a musician; he used to play the
cello with the Amsterdam ‘Concertgebouw
Orchestra’. I still remember quite well when he sat
there and practiced. It was in 1942 when they went
to Poland as ‘foreign workers’.
They didn’t survive; all of them perished.
