Louis de Groot collection

Identifier: irn37168
Language of Description: English
Level of Description: Collection
Source: EHRI Partner

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Acquisition

The collection was donated to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 2009 by Louis de Groot.

Scope and Content

Original film footage of pre war life in Holland; film shot by Meijer de Groot; documents, photographs and correspondence surrounding the de Groot family during the Holocaust, several of whom perished in Auschwitz. Includes letters from donor's sister Rachel, documents from the Red Cross about the fate of the de Groot family, and Rachel de Groot's homework notebook. Some of these materials may be combined into a single collection in the future.

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Displaying items 1 to 13 of 13

De Groot family visits Sonsbeek Park in spring 1939
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
- irn1004331
- English
- Updated 7 months ago
A dog, then large groups of well dressed people walking in Sonsbeek Park on a pathway next to massive flowerbeds of various colors. This was the first time that flower bulbs were planted in Sonsbeek, which merited the purchase of color film by Meijer de Groot. This was the only color film he made. Sophia de Groot walks the dog, another dog runs up to join it. Meijer then walks the same dog. The dog runs off, and Louis, his sister Rachel, mother Sophia, and Eva Haller (a Kindertransport girl from Vienna who stayed with the de Groots) walk towards the camera. Two dogs begin to play in front o...
Annual flower parade in Arnhem
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
- irn1004332
- English
- Updated 7 months ago
Parade in the city of Arnhem, filmed from the front of the de Groot family-owned hardware and electrical appliance shop on Rijnstraat. Merchant-owned horse-drawn carriages and automobiles adorned in flowers and filled with people drive past a large crowd on the street for the annual flower corso. People on bicycles, then young men and women in blazers on a sports team walk by following a float with an outline of a discus thrower on it. 01:02:32 CU, float with a sign, partially deciphered as "van Zoon Boerden Brood... de Groot..." More cars, a bus, and policemen on horseback drive by.
Extended family visits with the de Groots in Arnhem
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
- irn1004333
- English
- Updated 7 months ago
Louis and Rachel on new bicycles in the alley adjacent to their house on Rijnstraat in Arnhem. They ride towards the camera waving. Cut to various family members in suits, along with Louis and Rachel, walking towards the camera on Rijnstraat, then in the alley, on the occasion of a visit by Meijer de Groot's brothers, Salomon, Izak, Mozes, and his sister, Julia van Leeuwen, and their children, Florence and Louis de Groot, Henny Cohen, and Elly van Leeuwen. The family was most likely brought together to bid farewell to cousin Louis de Groot who had prepared to illegally escape Holland for En...
De Groot family walks to Sonsbeek Park; Castle Zypendaal
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
- irn1004334
- English
- 1940
- Updated 7 months ago
The de Groot family walking in Sonsbeek Park. People riding bikes. An older man (Max Turksma, Meijer de Groot's bridge parter) with a cigar on a bicycle greets the cameraman. Cut to a different outing in Arnhem with a view of Castle Zypendaal, the large mansion owned by Baron von Heemstra where Audrey Hepburn and her mother lived during the war, in a field surrounded by trees. Children play with a small dog. More shots of the castle and then of a smaller building on the grounds. Back to the de Groots walking in Sonsbeek Park along paths in the forest, all of them very well dressed. 01:05:41...
Rachel de Groot's performance for a swimming diploma
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
- irn1004335
- English
- Updated 7 months ago
In order to earn a swimming diploma, children were required to swim in clothes other than a bathing suit. This practice became a performance followed by the participants swimming in their fancy outfits. Meijer de Groot filmed his daughter Rachel dressed as Red Riding Hood, and her friend Nel de Booys, the daughter of the camera shop owner, among other candidates. INTs, actors in costume in a dark setting. They sample cake of some sort held by someone dressed as a nurse. A young girl in a dress acting, shakes hands with another young girl. A group dressed identically in flowing dresses and b...
Visiting the park and the zoo in prewar Netherlands
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
- irn1004336
- English
- Updated 7 months ago
EXT, children (much younger) walking on a ledge surrounded by large boulders in Park Sonsbeek, including Louis, Rachel, and cousin Henny Cohen. The family visits the park on the occasion of a visit by Leentje (Sophia's oldest sister) and Alexander Cohen. Walking in the park and waving. CU, Alexander nodding. Lots of family walking towards the camera along paths. Someone threshing wheat. 01:07:47 At Burger's Dierenpark, the zoo in Arnhem, a wolf walks back and forth behind a chain-link fence. Then a bear is seated like a person, roaring.
De Groot family and friends gather for tea in Park Sonsbeek
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
- irn1004337
- English
- 1936-1938
- Updated 7 months ago
Table and chairs set outside in summer, with the de Groot family and neighbors seated and drinking tea at Thee Schenkerij, a teagarden in Sonsbeek, probably in 1936. The neighbors owned a shoestore also on the Rijnstraat. An older man lights a cigar. Children, including Louis and Rachel, playing and crawling towards the camera. More shots of the adults lunching. Louis wearing a tea cozy as a funny hat marches towards the camera, simulating Napolean Bonaparte. MS, a mansion, and cows at the model farm in Sonsbeek. 01:09:20 Outside near the city street Jansbuiten Singel, mother Sophia posing ...
Family visits Sonsbeek Park and the bridge across the Rhine in prewar Arnhem
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
- irn1004338
- English
- 1938
- Updated 7 months ago
Outdoors at Sonsbeek Park in Arnhem, rows of houses around a field in a square. Mansion at top of hill. Rachel picks flowers from that field. Rachel and Louis play leapfrog on the sidewalk as other de Groot family members walk towards the camera behind them. This road is on the way to Sonsbeek and the waterfall. 01:10:44 Large boulders and waterfall as the children walk along that precarious path. They wave to the camera as they attempt to navigate to the base of the waterfall, equipped with bread to feed the ducks. Children at the top of the waterfall. Louis splashing at a duck in a large ...
Children play near the de Groot home and go swimming; extended family goes to Sonsbeek Park in prewar Arnhem
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
- irn1004339
- English
- 1937-1938
- Updated 7 months ago
Louis sweeps a sidewalk alley adjacent to his house with a push broom. Rachel and friend Nel de Booys, the daughter of the camera shop owner who kept these films for safekeeping during the war, carry one another in the alley as Louis sweeps (slowed down). They smack at each other playfully. They then carry Louis in front of the de Groot store on Rijnstraat. An older man and trusted employee of the de Groot family store, Herman Langenbach, carries Louis on his shoulders, flanked by the rest of the children. Louis and Rachel spent their first night in hiding at the home of Mr. Langenbach. Ano...
Children play at a farm in the Netherlands where Rachel de Groot spent the summer of 1941
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
- irn1004340
- English
- Updated 7 months ago
Rachel and cousin Henny Cohen spent the summer of 1941 at the farm of Steef and Bertha van der Pol in Zwartebroek when vacation opportunities for Jews were severely limited. Bertha had been the children's nanny before 1936/7. Louis and his parents visited Rachel one day, along with cousin Florence de Groot, who spent her summer vacation with the de Groots in Arnhem while her father was in jail. The children, older now, play at a farm outdoors. Louis pulls Florence in a wagon, with a string attached to the wagon and to his belt, he plays the horse. The de Groot family is walking about, in cl...
Ice-skating in prewar Netherlands
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
- irn1004341
- English
- 1939-1941
- Updated 7 months ago
The de Groot family ice-skates on a large pond (either Winter 1939-1940 or 1940-1941) in Sonsbeek Park. Rachel is with her classmates, while Louis attempts skating for the first time. There are hundreds skating in the BG as the children struggle to skate with blades strapped to their boots. They drink cocoa or hot anis milk delivered on a sled. They resume skating towards the camera, some doing better than others.
Riding the merry go round and walking along gardens in prewar Netherlands
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
- irn1004342
- English
- Updated 7 months ago
Mother Sophia de Groot's sister Esther, her husband Max van der Stam, and their son Freddy visited Arnhem probably in 1937. The entire family rides a carousel in a city park. 01:21:30 CU from behind of Max, the man with a hat, watching the carousel go around. In another round, the riders include one of Sophia's sisters, Mietje Vigevano and her small white dog Tippy, next to Freddy, cousin Henny, and Louis. 01:21:53 Crowds of people moving along sculpted flower gardens in Sonsbeek in summer 1940. Cut to a brief glimpse of a different park outing with Sophia walking the family's small black d...
Louis de Groot papers
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
- irn39652
- English
- folder 1
- Updated 7 months ago
Documents, photographs, and correspondence concerning the de Groot family during the Holocaust, several of whom perished in Auschwitz. Includes letters from donor's sister Rachel, documents from the Red Cross about the fate of the de Groot family, and Rachel de Groot's homework notebook.