Nili Goren
Nili Goren (born May 24, 1933 in Utrecht as Jacqueline van der Hoeden ) is a Jewish contemporary witness and survivor of the Holocaust .
Life
Jacqueline van der Hoeden was born as the youngest of four children. Her father Jacob van der Hoeden was a veterinarian and lecturer at the University of Utrecht . The parents defined the first name Jacqueline as a combination of the first name of the father and Lien , the first name of the mother. Jacqueline's nickname then became Lieneke . This typically Dutch name, in connection with her blue eyes and the good relationships with her father, allegedly saved her as much as possible from persecution by the National Socialists and saved her life, she said later.
When the deportation of Jews to the Netherlands began in the summer of 1942 , the family separated in order to ensure their survival. The four children were divided up, sent to befriended families in the countryside and hidden there. From October 1942 to April 1943 Lieneke van der Hoeden initially lived with her older sister Rachel with the Cooymans family in St. Oedenrode . When the Cooymans family was suspected of favoring Jews, the sisters had to split up and came to other friends of their parents. From then on Lieneke van der Hoeden lived in the small village of Den Ham with Dr. Hein Kohly, where she could even get “mail” from her father.
Kohly was organized in the resistance and got through his secret connections his father's illustrated letters, which were bound in small notebooks. Gradually, a total of nine letters were received. Lieneke van der Hoeden was only allowed to keep each new “letter book” for one day; afterwards it should be destroyed by Kohly so that no dangerous evidence would be found in a search by the Gestapo, which was feared all the time. After the end of the Second World War , however, Lieneke van der Hoeden unexpectedly received all of Kohly's letters. He had hidden them in a tin under an apple tree in the garden and, according to his own admission, “didn't have the heart” to destroy the letters. Every letter could have been the last sign of life from the father of his protégé.
Lieneke van der Hoeden was picked up by her father just three weeks after the end of the war. Except for the mother, who died while they were in hiding, the family members survived the National Socialist persecution of the Jews. Nili later said: "When you consider what others have experienced in the Holocaust, I can be very happy." After the war, the family emigrated to Israel . Lieneke van der Houden married there; her name is now Nili Goren and she has three children and six grandchildren. Her father died in 1980 at the age of 76.
The Israeli memorial Yad Vashem honored the couples Cooymans and Kohly as Righteous Among the Nations and also the couple Roelofsen, with whom Lienekes brother Baruch and the eldest sister Hanna stayed, and Numans, where Rachel found the second refuge.
A few years ago Nili Goren presented the original letters to the Israeli children's museum Yad LaYeled . There they were discovered by the French writer Agnès Desarthe , who made contact with Nili Goren and explored and recorded their fate in conversations. Desarthe published the nine booklets of Jacob van der Hoeden in France in 2007 together in a slipcase ; in a tenth issue she tells the story that lies behind it. In 2009 the German edition of Lienekes Hefte was published in a translation by Edmund Jacoby in his Berlin publishing house Jacoby & Stuart ; in the same year she was awarded the lynx literary prize of the month (No. 266) .
literature
- Jacob van der Hoeden: Les carnets de Lieneke . Ed .: Agnès Desarthe , L'Ecole des Loisirs, Paris 2007, ISBN 978-2-211-08662-2 . (First edition, French)
- Jacob van der Hoeden: Lienekes booklets . Ed .: Agnès Desarthe, Jacoby & Stuart publishing house , Berlin 2009, ISBN 978-3-941087-41-5 . (9 booklets in a slipcase)
- Tami Shem-Tov: The girl with the three names . Fischer-Taschenbuch-Verlag , Frankfurt am Main 2009, ISBN 978-3-596-85373-1 . (Translated from the Hebrew and Dutch by Mirjam Pressler )
- Jacob van der Hoeden: Lienekes booklets . Ed .: Agnès Desarthe, Jacoby & Stuart publishing house , Berlin 2011, ISBN 978-3-941787-56-8 . (Hit edition, hardcover)
Web links
- Jacob van der Hoeden: Lienekes booklets at Funkhaus Europa
- Jacob van der Hoeden: Lienekes booklets at Perlentaucher
Individual evidence
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Goren, Nili |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Hoeden, Jacqueline van der (maiden name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Holocaust survivor and contemporary witness |
| DATE OF BIRTH | May 24, 1933 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Utrecht |