This book is very sad, yet inspiring due to the survival of the central characters. It clearly describes the detailed research by young author, Reinier Heinsman. The gist of the story is that after 75 years the author pieced together artifacts to enable a group of orphans from Antwerp to reunite in various ways, from all over the world today. The personal recollections of these men and women are included in the book, along with many photographs of the children in large and small groups from that period long ago. We learn of the deaths of their parents, and then of various actions by others that combined to protect the orphans.
Sadly, the author passed away in 2022. Others will no doubt continue to search and preserve the memories of so many innocent victims of war.
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What a wonderful book this turned out to be. This is my review posted to Amazon.
Reviewed in the United States on August 10, 2022 Ed Wurster Voorhees, NJ Leider | Leader | Samowitz | Samuels
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Margarita Lacko
I am very sorry to read about the death of Reinier.
He contacted me a few years ago, via JewishGen Family Finder, regarding my research of the SIMON family from Cluj. He provided a lot of information. I had some doubts because the relative I knew arrived in Argentina with a different name and birth year. After more research, looks like this relative changed his name and age quite often! Even his daughter was surprised to see all this information. She thought her father went to Belgium only to embark to Argentina.
I thank Reinier for all what he did for my cousin and wish his family the strength needed in these difficult times.
Met vriendelijke groeten, Margarita Lacko
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C.W. Kirschbaum
It is with great sadness that I learn about the death of Reinier. I knew him as a devoted and resourceful researcher who generously shared his extensive knowledge. Our families were remotley connected (via the Landau-Hofstatter branch) and thanks to Reinier we reached a whole new level of understanding and visualizing our family history.
I hope there are more Reiniers out there. I suspect he was quite unique. My thoughts are with his family and friends. -- Claudia Witte-Kirschbaum Switzerland clwitte@... KIRSCHBAUM (Parysow, Rozan, Lodz, Nizhniy Novgorod); BORNSTEIN (Parysow, Rozan, Lodz); DUMTSCHIN (Mogilev, Nizhniy Novgorod) LANDAU (Brzesko); FRISCH, EINHORN (Bochnia), STRUMPFNER (Krakow)
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Alain Raap
For whom who had contact with Reinier in the past, I have a sad message that Reinier passed away March 8 this year. https://www.amazon.com/Childrens-Home-Gas-Chamber-avoided/dp/B091F5SJLL Alain Raap (uncle of Reinier)
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Hello. My great aunt was Gertrude Warman (one of the names in the book) and lived in Brussels, Belgium.
Marian Thompson Marianthompson47@... England
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Reinier
In addition to the orphanages mentioned in my previous message, I forgot to mention that the book also includes survivors who were in the orphanages in Lasne, Oudergem (Auderghem), Villa Miravalle (Boitsfort) and Hirondelles, as well as the orphanages in Israel in Kibbutz Nitzanim, the Alonei Yitzhak Youth Institution, Pardes Hanna and Kiryat Ye'arim.
Reinier Heinsman heinsmanreinier@... The Netherlands
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Reinier
Surnames of survivors and victims in the book include the following:
ZELMANOVIC, PINKAS, MOED, ROJER, JERUCHIM, FRIEDMAN, PELTE (PELTIN), RITMEESTER, DORF, SZTANCER, SZPINDEL, JERUZALSKI, KRYSZTAL, GLUCK, SZAFIR, ZIELONCZYK, KOHN, FEIT, GOLDSTEIN, GOLDBERG, TUTTER, WARMAN, KURTZ, SCHIPPER, ENGLANDER, MILERAD, SCHREIBER, FEUERVERGER, GETZLER, EHRENREICH, SZYDLOW, KORNGUT, WEISSER, BARON, ROTH, FLINKER, GUTWEIN, BLONDER, WOLFF, ZANDBERG, SPINDLER, GEYER, WAGSCHAL, WYKINSKA, WENGROWICZ, ZAGDANSKI, KLEIN, WILDSTEIN, BECKMAN, JEGER, HAENDEL, LEDERMAN, KREISMAN, GOLDSTEIN, KREMER, GOLDROSEN, LANGERMAN, BUCHOLC, SEALTIEL, CYNGISER, LISIEWICZ. Reinier Heinsman heinsmanreinier@... The Netherlands
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Reinier
In April I published the book ''From the Children's Home to the Gas Chamber, and how some avoided their fate.''
It is a book about Belgium with a focus on the stories of child survivors. I conducted interviews with these survivors (born between 1923 and 1943), resulting in about 50 testimonies that feature in this book. The survivors talk about their lives prior to, during, and after the war. Many survivors lived in Belgian orphanages during or after the war, including the following orphanages: Meisjeshuis (Antwerp), Tiefenbrunner, Wezembeek, Aische-en Refail, Baron de Castro (Etterbeek), Les Moineaux (Uccle), the orphanage at the Lange Leemstraat (Antwerp) and the orphanage at the Generaal Drubbelstraat (Antwerp), also known as Manaster orphanage. If you would like to receive a free digital copy of the book, you can send me a message and I can send you the PDF-file of the book. The book is also available on Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/Childrens-Home-Gas-Chamber-avoided/dp/B091F5SJLL Reinier Heinsman heinsmanreinier@... The Netherlands
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