Martin and Sophie Keizer Waterman family 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.

• 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 ...

• 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.