Maurits Serphos family collection

Identifier: irn517545
Language of Description: English
Level of Description: Collection
Source: EHRI Partner

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Acquisition

The collection was donated to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 2005 by Rita Serphos, the daughter of Maurits Serphos.

Scope and Content

The collection consists of diaries, documents, false identification cards, family photographs, and a publication relating to the experiences of Maurits Serphos and his family while they were living in hiding in Amsterdam, Netherlands, during the Holocaust.

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Serphos family papers
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
- irn523487
- English
- folders oversize folder 5 1
- Updated 8 months ago
The Serphos family papers include biographical material, correspondence, two diaries, and photographs relating to the experiences of the Serphos family while in hiding in Amsterdam, Netherlands, including false identification cards, family photographs, two diaries written by Maurits Serphos while in hiding, and postcards written by Bertie Serphos from the Westerbork concentration camp. Biographical material includes an identification card for Maurits, false identification cards for Maurits and Benjamina using the names Simon Pieter, Willem Van Veen, and Theodora Koppels, identification card...
Book
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
- irn523488
- English
- 1941-1945
- Updated 8 months ago
Illustrated children's book read by two year old Rita Serphos while in hiding with her family in Amsterdam, Netherlands, from 1941 until the end of the war in 1945. The book was taken with the family from hding place to hiding place. Because Rita was so young, she was not allowed to keep the book with her, but she knew that she could look at it each time they moved.

Maurits Serphos family collection

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Serphos family papers

Book