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The Florida Holocaust Museum Releases the Thirteenth Story in its  “25 Survivors, 25 Stories… Celebrating 25 Years!” Oral History Series

April 25, 2018 by Post

The FHM highlights the individual stories of 25 Holocaust Survivors
April 25, 2018 [St. Petersburg, FL] – The Florida Holocaust Museum (The FHM) has partnered with Eckerd College to release a 25th Anniversary oral history series titled “25 Survivors, 25 Stories… Celebrating 25 Years!”
Over the next 25 months, the Museum’s oral history series will feature a different Holocaust Survivor on the 25th of every month. Each Survivor brings to the series an individual voice that enlivens our understanding of the Holocaust; the war’s effects on individuals, families, and communities dispersed across the world; and its reverberations into the present moment.
The thirteenth story was released this morning and features Holocaust Survivor Sabine Van Dam. An excerpt from the piece is as follows:
 
Her father’s ambitious plan was to walk from the Netherlands to Belgium to France, and finally to Switzerland, which was not occupied. They walked until they reached the Dutch-Belgian border, where they had to sneak under the barbed wire fence because they didn’t have papers. They walked until they arrived in Antwerp, Belgium, where they found refuge in an abandoned house.

While in Antwerp, Sabine, her sister, and her mother did not leave the house. On a typical day, she recalls that her father would go out for around three hours. But one day, she recalls, “he was not back after three, four, four and a half hours. My mother was frantic, because here she was in a strange country, with two little girls, no phone, and we didn’t know anybody and were trapped in the house.”
She explained to us that during the time of the occupation, monetary rewards were offered for every Jew turned over to the authorities. A man had followed her father home and threatened to turn him in. Sabine’s father bargained with him, telling him that he could pay him more than amount of the reward. When her father finally arrived home, they paid off the man with her mother’s gold jewelry. Nonetheless, he threatened to turn them in the next day. It was time to flee again. “We waited a few hours,” Sabine said, “and put on all our clothes and started walking to Brussels, where we went to another house…”
To read Sabine’s story in its entirety, please visit: https://www.flholocaustmuseum.org/survivor-stories/story-13-sabine-van-dam.
The Florida Holocaust Museum’s Upcoming Programs and Events
In the coming months, The FHM will present numerous programs, events, and exhibitions, along with its daily educational and outreach efforts.
    • April 26 & 27– The Pardoll Family Lecture Series presents Tom Ikeda, “The World War II Japanese American Incarceration and Why It Matters Today.” 2018 marks the 76th anniversary of Executive Order 9066, which led to the incarceration of 120,000 innocent Japanese Americans. To mark this anniversary, Densho executive director Ikeda will discuss how this injustice happened during a time of fear and how we are seeing similar fears happening in America today. This program is free and will take place on Thursday, April 26th at 6:30 p.m. at The FHM and on Friday, April 27th at 11:00 a.m. at The Community Foundation of Sarasota County. To RSVP, please call 727.820.0100 ext. 301.
    • May 10– The FHM presents a screening of the film Lea and Mira and a Holocaust Survivor talk. Lea and Mira depicts the thoughts of two Holocaust Survivors who transmit their wisdom, their resilience, and their way of looking at the world and life after trauma and horror. Following the film, local Holocaust Survivor Pieter Kohnstam will share his personal experience of escaping Nazi Europe to Argentina. This program is free and will take place on Thursday, May 10th at 6:30 p.m. at The Studio@620. To RSVP, please call 727.820.0100 ext. 301.
To learn more about The FHM’s upcoming events and exhibitions, visit the Museum online at www.TheFHM.org.
The Florida Holocaust Museum is located at 55 5th Street S, St. Petersburg, FL 33701.
About The Florida Holocaust Museum
 
2017 marked a monumental milestone for The Florida Holocaust Museum (The FHM) as the Museum celebrated its 25th Anniversary. One of the largest Holocaust museums in the country, and one of three nationally accredited Holocaust museums, The FHM honors the memory of millions of men, women and children who suffered of died in the Holocaust. The FHM is dedicated to teaching members of all races and cultures the inherent worth and dignity of human life in order to prevent future genocides. For additional information, please visit www.TheFHM.org.
Photos and credits
Childhood photo of Sabine Van Dam.
Photo credit: Holocaust Museum & Education Center.
 
Sabine Van Dam in 2018.
Photo credit: Eckerd College
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