Thursday, January 06, 2022
Artifact from World War II Jewish hideout goes on display in Amsterdam
A round mantelpiece clock—the only remaining item from a Jewish hideout during World War II—will go on display with other Holocaust artifacts at Amsterdam's Dutch Resistance Museum later this year, reported The Guardian.
Along with family photographs, documents and a book of poetry that will be exhibited, the clock belonged to the family of Marianne ("Janny" or "Jannie") Brandes-Brilleslijper, a Holocaust survivor and Nazi resistance fighter who died in 2003.
After the Nazis invaded the Netherlands, Brandes-Brilleslijper refused to get a Jewish ID card and started working for the resistance by helping to spread secret messages, and move illegal packages and documents.
When the situation became direr for Jews, she and her husband, as well as their two children, moved to the High Nest villa in the woods outside Amsterdam. She lived there with her parents, her sister Lien's family, other Jewish people and resistance fighters. Seventeen people reportedly lived in the hideout, which was written about in Roxane van Iperen's bestselling novel that was published in English as The Sisters of Auschwitz.
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