Between Two Mothers- The Story of Hans Van Gelder
Hans Van Gelder was born in 1933 in Amsterdam , the only child of Isidore and Florie Jacobson. In the first years of German occupation, her father was sent to a labor camp. Hans and her mother met Henny Krabbé, who was active in the Dutch underground, and the decision was made that Hans live with Henny and her daughter Karen. The three developed a strong family-like bond which lasted for many years. Hans later discovered that her father had been sent to Auschwitz-Birkenau and murdered during a death march. Hans’s mother was also captured and taken to Auschwitz, but she survived, returning to Amsterdam. She later remarried and moved to Uruguay. Hans married Aron in 1957 and the two have had four children. www.yadvashem.org/education/t...
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Thank you Mrs Van Gelder. How hard it must have been to be a parent in the war. I guess all parents first wish is to save their child at whatever the cost. You grew up without them and your mother came back a broken woman ( no wonder). No one could ever understand what she went through in Block 10. It must have haunted her. How lucky you were to have such a good foster mum and what a brave women she - and others - were. You could say that you almost had a normal childhood. So sad, so very sad. And to think how many times it must have happened. Good people looked after children for years and grew to love them as their own. Sad , sad - on both sides. With a child caught in the middle ! Looking at a parent they didn’t recognise anymore and all the parent has lived for is to see the child. Do you know, I may be horrible, but you almost wish that there is a H..L - the perpetrators need to see , experience and understand the terror they inflected. Sorry this is so long. I’m a bit embarrassed- but such a story deserved a full comment. G - D bless you and your family. Hope all coped with this strange year we’ve had. 🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺
Hans, you came through many difficulties (beyond your control and not your choosing) successfully! Much respect to you!
Between two mothers... What a beautiful and touching story of Hans Gelder. Fate brought soo many turns and twists in her life. Finally, cracks in relations were patched up and Hans led a happy life!!
I realize that she was a young teenager and they want what they want or most of them do,I can only think how terrible and quilty she must of felt when she became aware of the Truth,her poor mother survives the death camps just to be rejected by the very thing that she must of endured the worst possible condition a human could endure, indescribable I can't find the word's to say what the lady was feeling.
Appreciate you for sharing a very painful period of time in your life. It is a hard one to tell when there is a conflict with a parent coupled with the pain of the Holocaust.
Why is the word music blocking the subtitles....one can't read the full sentences....
Dear Friends !-Id like to recommande the most famous book about these times of Jewish people 's extermination:"Anna Franks diary",published by Her Father after Anna&Her older sis:Margot tragically death in the exyremination's camp in Germany.-Maybe these two stories will help to stop antysemitism in our moderne world.