Correspondence with Douglas-Dobschiner, Johanna-Ruth
Extent and Medium
5 letters
Biographical History
Johann Ruth (Douglas-) Dobschiner was a Dutch Holocaust survivor. Born into an orthodox Jewish family in Germany, she emigrated to the Netherlands in the early 1930s. She survived the Nazi occupation with the help of resistance fighter Bastiaan Jan Ader. After the Second World War she converted to Christianity.
Scope and Content
Correspondence regarding the Library’s provision with J. R. Douglas-Dobschiner’s eyewitness account on her persecution by the Nazis and her rescue by Dutch resistance fighter Bastiaan Jan Ader.
Conditions Governing Access
open
People
- Ader, Bastiaan Jan
- Dobschiner, Johanna-Ruth
Subjects
Places
- Netherlands