Jose Coltof (F / Netherlands, 1942), Holocaust survivor

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Jose Coltof (F / Netherlands, 1942), Holocaust survivor

Biography

José Coltof was born in 1942 in the Netherlands. She survived in hiding, hosted by a Protestant family. Was reunited with her mother after the war.

USHMM Oral History Collection

José Coltof, born in 1942, discusses her middle class upbringing in Amsterdam, the Netherlands; her mother’s fear of Hitler; Jewish persecutions; the outbreak of war in Holland in May 1940; medical professionals who hid children; hiding with a Protestant family for the length of the war; fearing the Nazis; raids looking for Jewish children; returning to her mother after the war; attending the only Jewish school in Holland; religion; living in the United States for short periods but returning home; permanently moving to the U.S. in 1962; adjusting to American life; and her feelings on what happened to her and other children who survived the Holocaust.

External links

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