De baby

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Movie
Original title De baby
Country of production Netherlands ,
original language Dutch
Publishing year 2012
length 85 minutes
Rod
Director Deborah van Dam
production Deborah van Dam Filmproducts, Hello Films
music Bob Zimmerman
camera Joost van Herwijnen, Deborah van Dam
cut Elja de Lange
occupation
  • Anneke Thomson-Kohnke
  • Cora de Jong-Greenaway
  • Fred Blacquiere

De Baby is a Dutch documentary by filmmaker Deborah van Dam about the life of Anneke Thomson. Born Kohnke (born December 25, 1940 in Hilversum ), who survived the Second World War as a Jewish child of German emigrants , hidden in Voorburg near The Hague . The film tells the events of that time, but also how they still shape your life today. The film premiere was on November 18, 2012.

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Anneke Kohnke

In 1942 Anneke's parents (Anna Bianca), Erich Kohnke (* 1900 in Berlin ), formerly a conductor in Chemnitz , and his wife Helene, née Leyens (* 1906 in Wesel ), gave their baby to the young student Cora de Jong, later married Greenaway who worked in the resistance and who gave the child to the Christian Blacquière family in Voorburg on the same day. The Kohnke couple were tracked down in their hiding place in 1943, interned in the Westerbork transit camp, deported and murdered in Auschwitz on September 23, 1943.

Helene Kohnke was friends with Edith Frank-Holländer , Anne Frank's mother . Both families had close contact in exile in the Netherlands. Otto Frank discovered Anneke Kohnke in an orphanage after the end of the Second World War when he was looking for his two daughters Anne and Margot . He then notified her uncle Erich Leyens in New York and her aunt Greta Herzfeld, née Leyens, in London. In July 1946 five-year-old Anneke Kohnke drove on the passenger ship USS Marine Flasher with other refugees to her uncle in New York, who took her in. There was no talk of the past. Anneke has lived in the United States ever since.

Yad Vashem

In February 2011, the Yad Vashem Memorial in Jerusalem announced that it had awarded Cora Greenaway (* 1916), Johannis Blacquiere (* 1911 - † 1985) and Jacoba Blacquiere (* 1912 - † 2003) the honorary title of Righteous Among the Nations . In a ceremony in The Hague on August 4, 2011 in the presence of Anneke Thompson, née Kohnke, the medals were presented to Cora Greenaway and Fred Blacquiere, the eldest son of the deceased Blacquiere.

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“In the Netherlands, the view of the war is still from the perspective of how good we were all. But it is time we admitted that there is a gray area between good and bad, ”says van Dam. The film follows their motto: “It is important to know the truth, no matter how painful it may be. ... The warm blanket over the story is not part of Deborah van Dam's repertoire. « 

Tobias Müller, Jüdische Allgemeine February 21, 2013

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