Maurits Schaap was in hiding in Axel near Zeeuws-Vlaanderen.
Copyright Holder: Eli Schaap
Videotape label:"Hiding during WWII, War Years, and Ami"
The Negbah (Hebrew for southbound) ship arrived in Israel on a voyage from Holland at the peak of fighting on the Negev in the Independence War. The ship was commanded by British Master Miller. The ship carried a group of 500 Jewish children -- Holocaust survivors from Romania, Hungary, Czechoslovakia, and Germany -- who were gathered in the"youth villag""Ilania" near the town of Apeldoorn in Holland.
At a seaport in Holland, the departure of a passenger ship, in 1948. On the ship's bow is written"Negba" and Haif" with corresponding Hebrew text. Flags of Israel held by passengers and on the vessel itself. Passengers climb aboard the ship along a gangplank. 00:31:14 Girl with long blonde braids, from behind, and her brother among other children. [The two kids were adopted by the Schaap family in Holland after the war. A Dutch family wanted to adopt them, but the courts ruled that the children should go to a Jewish family, so the Schaaps fled to Israel.] Ship departs dock.
Departure of passenger ship Negbah with Jewish children