Documents & Sources

The documents, records and archives this site draws on, by family.

The de Kadt family

• Peter de Haan’s article on the de Kadt familyPDF
• Articles by Peter de HaanTranslated on this site. Dutch originals: Een familiedrama zonder weerga and Joods familiedrama (2), linked below
• Een familiedrama zonder weergaDutch original, PDF
• Joods familiedrama (2)Dutch original, PDF
• Death certificates, 1942PDF
• Letter from the Wijnstra familyPDF
• David Jan’s conscientious objector letterTranscribed on this site
• The de Kadt grave, LeeuwardenTresoar gravestone database
• Joods MonumentThe family’s entry in the Jewish Monument database
• Leeuwarden newspaper archivesHistorisch Centrum Leeuwarden. Search for “de Kadt”

The Cohen family

• Leny’s video testimony, 1998USC Shoah Foundation Visual History Archive. The video can be watched at subscribing institutions.
• “Local Holocaust survivor reaches out to Girl Scouts with a message”Davis Enterprise, October 29, 2020
• International Tracing Service (ITS) record for Hans Frits CohenFrom a request to the ITS collection at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. Quoted on The Story
• The Etty Hillesum Center in DeventerResearch notes on the family, with photographs and papers
• Cohen-Board correspondence, 1945Dr. Johan Cohen’s letter to the Deventer Jewish congregation, and the reply
• Death announcement for Ella Polak CohenDelpher newspaper archive (kranten.kb.nl)