Suzanne mehler whiteley biography sample

Suzanne Whiteley (1935-2019) was born Suzanne Mehler on September 26, 1935 in Amsterdam.

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Her parents had recently moved to Amsterdam from Germany to escape persecution. The Germans arrived in Amsterdam when Suzanne was four and a half. They lived under increasingly restrictive conditions until the Germans took them in the beginning of 1943.

Her family, along with many other Jews, were taken to a train station and waited for hours before they were put onto a train.

Memoirs of a Jewish woman, born in 1935 in Amsterdam; pt.

Young adulthood, 1958.

Born in Amsterdam in 1935, Suzanne Mehler Whiteley saw the ravages of war through a child's eyes.

A courageous memoir describing the life of a young girl and her experiences living in Holland during World War II. Born in Amsterdam in 1935, Suzanne Mehler.

The author describes her experiences during the Holocaust between the ages of five and nine, in Amsterdam, as a prisoner in the Westerbork and Bergen-Belsen.

The train took them to Westerbork concentration camp where they spent five to six months before being transported to Bergen-Belsen.

Her family arrived at Bergen-Belson in the late spring of 1943. At that point the camp was relatively empty, but it filled up quickly as new prisoners arrived daily.

Suzanne and her family spent one and a half years in Bergen-Belson. Hunger was a major facet of her life in the camp and many of her