Gershon Willinger

Who is named on the stones?

My father was in the hospitality industry before the war, and he was in Bad Wildungen he worked there in a Jewish hotel. He was a chef. He lived on the premises. My mother came in '29 and she stayed in Holland, but she never naturalized. My father I found out was married to a non-Jewish woman. He divorced in '35 and he came to Holland in 1937, but he still went back and forth to Bad Wildungen between 1935 and 1937. He traveled up and down and still stayed, at the hotel and worked there. And finally, when people thought that he was a spy he stayed away and stayed in Holland, also not naturalized. So they got together, got married and then had my sister in May, 1942 ... they wanted another child in 1942 so they had me. You know, they must've thought that children could stay with the parents or whatever happened when they saw that things were bad they allowed me at a very early age to be taken by the underground who knew about this baby. And I came to this family, the righteous among the nations. The story is that my mother, my birth mother Edith came to where I stayed and worked as for a short time as a maid at the farm across the brook so that she could have contact, not with me, but find out about me. But she went back to Amsterdam. They went for one day to Westerbork the transit camp. And we think it was the 29th of June that they came to Westerbork and then they were sent straight through to Sobibor, where in July and the date I have is the 2nd of July, they were together murdered upon arrival in Sobibor in Poland…