The map was donated to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 1991 by Amichai Heppner.
Map owned by 10 year old Max Heppner when he was living in hiding with his family on a farm in Holland from 1942-1944. Nazi Germany occupied the Netherlands in May 1940. Max and his family lived in Amsterdam and in 1942, after house raids and the confiscation of his father's art business, they attempted to flee to France. The Dutch underground placed the family with another Jewish family on a farm. They lived mostly in chicken houses where the farmer built special hiding places and gave them a radio. The area was liberated in September 1944. Max and his mother emigrated to the United States on November 4, 1946.
Map of the canal network in France owned by a Dutch Jewish boy while living in hiding
Polycrome map entitled,"De Fransche Kanaalkus" Map of the French Canal Shore (Cherbourg-Le Treport). Printed in The Hague, dated May 26, 1944. In Dutch."KOMPA" SITUATIEKAARTJE No. 12.
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overall: Height: 9.250 inches (23.495 cm) | Width: 9.610 inches (24.409 cm)