Bram Asscher's letter from Camp Westerbork
Bram Asscher, a classmate of Margot Frank, wrote to his mother on 25 August 1944 that Margot was in Westerbork.
Abraham (Bram) Asscher, a classmate of Margot Frank at the Jewish Lyceum, wrote to his mother from Westerbork on 25 August 1944: "Mama, do you know that Margot is here? That friend of Trees. You surely remember her don't you? She is with her parents and sister in the S. Very unfortunate!"[1]
Bram himself was in the 'free' camp section and he was allowed to write a letter or two cards and receive parcels once every fortnight. The eight people in hiding did not have these opportunities because they were criminal cases. Whether Bram himself saw or even spoke to Margot, who was therefore in another, segregated part of the camp, is not clear from the correspondence. It is one of the few documents about the Frank family's stay in Camp Westerbork.
Footnotes
- ^ Herinneringcentrum Kamp Westerbork, RA 1090, Bram Asscher aan familie D.L. Tollenaar, 24 augustus 1944; Eva Moraal, Als ik morgen niet op transport ga..... Kamp Westerbork in beleving en herinnering, Amsterdam: De Bezige Bij, 2014, p, 363.
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Brief van Bram Asscher waarin hij schrijft dat Margot in Westerbork is
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