Milo Anstadt

Milo Anstadt
Amstadt in 1960
Born	(1920-07-10)10 July 1920 Lwów, Poland
Died	16 July 2011(2011-07-16) (aged 91) Amsterdam, Netherlands
Nationality	Dutch

Samuel Marek "Milo" Anstadt (10 July 1920 – 16 July 2011) was a Dutch Jewish writer and journalist.

Biography

Andstadt was born and lived in Lwów (Poland, nowadays Lviv in Ukraine) until 1930. At the age of 10, Milo, his parents and sister Sera emigrated to the Netherlands.^[1] In the Netherlands, he completed primary school but did not go to secondary school.^[2]

When Anstadt was fourteen years old, he worked for the Transformatorenfabriek Besra in Amsterdam, he often went to ANSKI a cultural club for mostly Jewish eastern European immigrants where you could assist at political and other lectures and all kind of performances, where he also received mentoring and was helped to become more spiritually developed. Later, he received a master's degree in law from the University of Amsterdam, specializing in criminology.

In 1941, he married Lydia Bleiberg, and they had a daughter Irka in March 1942. After a warning in the evening of 9 July 1942, they had to go immediately into hiding. Their daughter was taken afterwards to a foster family in Beverwijk by the Resistance.

From 1945 to 1950, he was an editor of the magazine