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Former Jewish Orphanage Leiden

The former Jewish Orphanage Machseh Lajesoumim in Leiden was evacuated during the Second World War, on 17-03-1943, by order of the German occupier.
All Jewish children were taken to Westerbork and from there to the extermination camps.

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Source

  • Text: TracesOfWar en Dick de Bruijne
  • Photos: Dick de Bruijne (1), Rob van der Sluis (2, 3)