Martin and Sophie Keizer Waterman family collection

Identifier: irn36106
Language of Description: English
Level of Description: Collection
Source: EHRI Partner

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https://collections.ushmm.org/search/catalog/irn36106

Acquisition

The collection was donated to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 2008 by Rodi Waters Glass, the daughter of Meyer and Sophie Waterman. An accretion was received in 2013.

Scope and Content

The collection consists of a flashlight, documents, and photographs relating to the experiences of Meijer and Sophia Frederika Keizer Waterman, their daughter, Roosje, and other family members in the United Kingdom, the Netherlands and the Westerbork transit camp, and the Vittel internment camp in France before, during, and after the Holocaust. Some of these materials may be combined into a single collection in the future.

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Rodi Waters Glass collection
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
- irn36107
- English
- folders 2
- Updated 7 months ago
Documents issued to Frederika Keizer and Meijer Waterman and their daughter Roosje [donor] in the Westerbork transit camp in the Netherlands, and the Vittel internment camp in France; also includes post-liberation and repatriation documents issued to the family. Includes photographs of the Waterman and Keizer families taken in the Netherlands and the United Kingdom, where Frederika was born.
Philips dynamo hand generator flashlight used by a Dutch Jewish family in prison camps
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
- irn36108
- English
- 1942-1944
- overall: Height: 3.250 inches (8.255 cm) | Width: 3.125 inches (7.938 cm) | Depth: 1.125 inches (2.858 cm)
- Updated 7 months ago
Pocket flashlight used by 7 year old Roosje Waterman and her family when they were imprisoned in Westerbork transit and Vittel internment camps. The flashlight required no batteries; the light went on when you pushed the hand pump and off when you released it. Meijer, his wife, Sophie, and their 6 year old daughter, Roosje, were arrested on September 25, 1942, in German occupied Amsterdam and taken to Westerbork. Roosje’s maternal grandfather, Samuel Keizer, found German officials willing to accept diamonds in exchange for their release in October. In 1943, they were arrested with Sophie's ...
Waterman and Keizer family papers
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
- irn61013
- English
- folder 1
- Updated 7 months ago
Collection of photographs and documents relating to the Waterman and Keizer families of Amsterdam before World War II, during the war in the Westerbork camp and in France, and after the war.

Martin and Sophie Keizer Waterman family collection

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Rodi Waters Glass collection

Philips dynamo hand generator flashlight used by a Dutch Jewish family in prison camps

Waterman and Keizer family papers