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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- Text: TracesOfWar en Dick de Bruijne
- Photos: Dick de Bruijne (1), Rob van der Sluis (2, 3)
Nearby
Museum
- Museum of Ethnology - Leiden
- Visitor Center Valkenburg Airport - Valkenburg (Katwijk)
- Fire Brigade Museum Wassenaar - Wassenaar
Point of interest
- Police Office Leiden - Leiden
- Academy Building Leiden University - Leiden
- Office National Socialist Student Front - Leiden
Monument
- Memorial Jewish Orphans Leuden - Leiden
- Memorial "Luggage" Roodenburgerstraat 1A - Leiden
- Liberation Tree Leiden - Leiden
Cemetery
- Dutch War Grave Municipal Cemetery Leiderdorp - Leiderdorp
- Dutch War Graves Municipal Cemetery Rhijnhof Leiden - Leiden
- Dutch War Grave Dutch Reformed Cemetery Zoeterwoude-Dorp - Zoeterwoude-Dorp
Remembrance Stone
- Stumbling Stones Roodenburgerstraat 1A - Leiden
- Stumbling Stone Wasstraat 28 - Leiden
- Stumbling Stones Tiboel Siegenbeekstraat 7 - Leiden
Fortification
- Atlantikwall - FluWa Leiderdorp - Leiderdorp
- Widerstandsnest 251, VF Observationpost Katwijk - Katwijk aan Zee
- Bunker Noordwijk WN232 - Noordwijk
Crash site
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