Jewish orphanage; Schaap family gatherings

Jewish orphanage; Schaap family gatherings 

Children at the Jewish orphanage in Leiden. Boys march in file and perform marching exercises in uniform. Toddlers play along with the older boys, including two black children (the product of a Jewish mother and black father). INT, family sits down for a meal. EXT, apartment building, birds flying about in the courtyard, family feeds the birds from the balcony. 03:01:58 A gathering of well-dressed family and friends, probably pre-war, including the couple seen moments earlier eating at home. The group eats a meal, plays cards, dances, and smokes. The men wear yarmulkes and there is a menorah on a nearby table. 03:06:19 A different gathering (notice the daylight and table setting) for Salomon's 82nd birthday in January 1942 with a mix of Orthodox, non-Orthodox Jews, and non-Jews. 03:07:43 Chief Rabbi of Rotterdam, Rabbi Yissachar-Berhard Davids, and a famous rabbi of Haarlem with a long white beard, Rabbi Simon Philip de Vries. Neither man survived the Holocaust. 

Copyright Holder: Eli Schaap 

The Jewish orphanage in Leiden opened in 1929 and was run by one of the Schaaps who died in the mid-1930s. Her husband is pictured in the group portrait in RG-60.1516. Those who lived at the orphanage were the last Jews to be deported from Leiden on March 17, 1943. Leiden police officers and the 'Grüne Polizei' deported 51 children and nine members of staff from the Jewish orphanage to Westerbork and on to concentration camps, where all but four died. 

Videotape label:"Father's movies: Family events, Rolls 3A,3B,3C,6(a" 

Maurits Schaap was in hiding in Axel near Zeeuws-Vlaanderen.