Wilhelmina Juhlin papers

United States Holocaust Memorial Museum 

Wilhelmina Juhlin papers 

folder 1 

Photographs and correspondence illustrating the experiences of the de Kadt and Swaap families during before, during, and after the Holocaust in the Netherlands. Includes photographic copies and original prints of images of Louis de Kadt and his wife Sonja [nee Swaap], who placed their children Wilhelmina and Maarten in hiding before their deportation. The children reunited after the war with their maternal grandmother, Margarethe Swaap, who survived Bergen-Belsen. Also included are photos of Wilhelmina with the daughters of her rescuers, the van der Zijden family, and letters written by Sonja dated 1940-41 from the Netherlands to her sister Ella in the United States.