Annelies Herzl (F / Netherlands, 1943), Holocaust survivor

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Annelies Herzl (F / Netherlands, 1943), Holocaust survivor

Biography

Annelies Herzl was born in Amsterdam, Netherlands in 1943 (?). She survived in hiding, hosted by Christians.

USHMM Oral History Collection

Annelies Herzl describes living in Amsterdam, Netherlands in 1943 after getting out of a concentration camp and being hidden by a retired couple who were part of the underground resistors; being taken to Utrecht, Netherlands via train by Eric Braun [sic] to a home with five children and working as their maid; escaping just hours before the home was searched and staying with an elderly Catholic woman for several months until Eric Braun took her to a new house where she stayed until being liberated in May 1945 by the Canadians; and feeling that she would not be able to do what all of the rescuers did and be as courageous and generous.

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