PREFACE

Families closely related to me are:

Boekbinder, Bruinvelds, Canes/Kanes, Dormits, Nathan, Haag, Hamburg, Hamburger, Menist, Roe, Swalleff, Zwalf, van Os, van West, Winnik.

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Updated 20 Februari 2008.

 

As a holocaust survivor from Dutch parents I started to investigate my roots from both sides.
I found it very difficult as you have to visit each community where the family lived to gather these facts, and besides enormous time consuming very costly as well.
I then decided to continue working on Dutch Jewry in general to facilitate other people of Dutch descent to be able to share the information I have gathered over the past five years at no cost whatsoever.

My technique is different as I have adapted the Spanish system of using 2 family names first the main name as the Father then the second name the Mother’s maiden name.

Example: I am Levie Kanes Nathan son of Salomon Kanes and Caroline Nathan. My son is Salomon Marcus Kanes Gotlieb son of
Levie Kanes and Ofelia Gotlieb, this way you can suddenly discover grand-parents or great grandparents from your mother’s family as well.
This will be shown in the following manner.
Kanes – Roe, Levie b-20-2-1885 d-23-4-1943 my grand-father
Kanes – Hamburg, Salomon b-18-6-1914 d-16-1-1944 my father
Kanes – Nathan, Levie
Kanes – Gotlieb, Salomon Marcus
The first name in the index is the family name then dash followed by the maiden name and then coma with the given names.
To respect privacy we do not show dates of birth of living people.

I would appreciate any corrections and apologize for any mistakes either in spelling or in dates.
  

I have recently published a book called “Outrage 2000”

Which can be seen at http://www.israelbooks.com/bookDetails.asp?book=31

A story of unbelievable heroism and survival, 'Outrage 2000' was inspired by the libel suit against historian Deborah Lipstadt in January 2000. This trial, covered worldwide for its shocking accusation, forced Lipstadt to prove, once and for all, that Hitler’s ovens and war machine did, in fact, consume millions of Jews during World War II.

Levie Kanes was an infant during the Holocaust and spent World War II in the care of a gentile foster family in Veghel, Holland. Outrage 2000 is Kanes’s biography, as well as a documentation of the collaboration of Dutch state institutions, especially the role of the Dutch police, in carrying out Hitler’s plan. But we also learn of the extraordinary and selfless efforts of Father Theo Verhoeven and his network of assistants, who made sure that Kanes and hundreds of other Jewish children remained safe throughout the war.

It is also the tragic tale of the fate of Kanes's father, Soli, and the torturous experiences of his mother, Caroline, who survived the experiments of the evil Dr. Josef Mengele in Auschwitz.

'Outrage 2000' is Levie Kanes’s contribution to preserving the truth and protecting it from manipulators. It is a tale that must be told.