Point 17 – Survivors of the Holocaust.

Den Halder Castle [1]

Later during the adventure walk we were guests at Den Halder Castle.
Here also joined the Benedik sisters from Beek.

Mary van Gelder came to Houthem as a 3-year-old girl and grew up with the Mulleneers family.

Piet Cohen was 8 years old when he was brought to IJzeren via resistance worker Paula Delahaije and survived with the Delahaije, Crutzen and Nijsten families.

Philip Soesan was only six months old and stayed for a time in Brabant and via Roosteren ended up in Limburg and finally in Broekhem where he survived the war in Huize Mozambique with the van Bergen family. You can read his story on the next page.

There are Stumbling Stones for 18 members of the Benedik family.
7 in Valkenburg, 11 in Beek. Only Selma’s father survived.

Come and tell what’s oft been told
Of how the war went by
And repeat it thousandfold
Each time again I’ll cry

Next page: In hiding in South Limburg, Philip Soesan

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