Roxane van Iperen > Quotes

“But, above all, the people I met there had an urgent message for me: tell this story, because it is different from the many stories the world knows. The Jews did not go to their deaths willingly -- indeed, there were Jewish resistance fighters. Female ones at that.”
― Roxane van Iperen, 't Hooge Nest

“Half an hour later, the Gestapo arrives at Van den Berg’s house to collect Kathinka for deportation.”
― Roxane van Iperen, The Sisters of Auschwitz: The True Story of Two Jewish Sisters’ Resistance in the Heart of Nazi Territory

“Brilleslijper, Joseph Brilleslijper-Gerritse, Fietje Rebling-Brilleslijper, Rebekka Brandes-Brilleslijper, Marianne Brilleslijper, Jacob v.d. Berg-Walvisch, Pauline Teixeira de Mattos, Abraham Teixeira de Mattos-Gompes, Louise Frank, Otto Frank-Hollander, Edith Frank, Margot Betti Frank, Annelies Marie The last train to Auschwitz will leave Westerbork the following morning.”
― Roxane van Iperen, The Sisters of Auschwitz: The True Story of Two Jewish Sisters’ Resistance in the Heart of Nazi Territory

“To assist with the ‘Final Solution to the Jewish problem’, the Germans had set up a department for disputable cases. When someone thought he was wrongly registered as ‘Jewish’, he could lodge an appeal at the Abteilung Innere Verwaltung (General Internal Administration).”
― Roxane van Iperen, The Sisters of Auschwitz: The True Story of Two Jewish Sisters’ Resistance in the Heart of Nazi Territory