Dr Izaak van Esso (1889-1966) was a Jewish-Dutch physician. He and his wife Louise had been part of the ‘Bergen-Belsen exchange’, whereby Jewish prisoners of the camp were exchanged for German nationals in Palestine.
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The correspondence centres on the employment of Louise van Esso at The Wiener Library to compile eyewitness accounts from The Netherlands for the institute's eyewitness testimony project. Further efforts concern attempts to purchase copies of survivor reports on SS-physician Carl Clauberg possessed by a Dutch individual.
Correspondence with Esso, Izaak and Louise van