Garden; prewar Zionist youth group

Copyright Holder: Eli Schaap Color film of park or garden. Flowering trees. Pan up windmill. Dutch flags flying from buildings on a narrow street. Women and children, including Herman and Sarah Vleeschhouwer, play and eat outdoors. Large group gathers to hear Zionist youths with blue and white clothing sing under director, probably in 1938 or 1939 in the Netherlands. Large Zionist flags. Man speaks from podium. More flags. Kids carrying flags and wearing uniforms parade. Maurits Schaap was in hiding in Axel near Zeeuws-Vlaanderen. Chaim (Herman) and Sarah Vleeschhouwer were sent to live in hiding at a children's home in Rotterdam run by the sisters Jacoba and Lambertine Holst. The sisters hid several Jewish children until they were betrayed in 1943. Lambertine and Jacoba were sent to the Vught concentration camp. All of the children were sent to Westerbork in November 1943. Herman and Sarah were killed in Auschwitz on February 11, 1944. Their parents, Gretha and Isaac Vleeschhouwer, survived the war and moved to Israel.