Philip Slier
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Philip "Flip" Slier (4 December 1923 – 9 April 1943) was a Dutch
labour camp. Eventually he escaped to Amsterdam and lived as an onderduiker
(a person in hiding); he frequently disguised himself and moved to different hiding locations to evade detection.
On 3 March 1943, before he could escape to
concentration camps before being killed by gas at the Sobibor extermination camp in Poland just over a month later. In accordance with his wishes, his parents kept the letters hidden and they were discovered over 50 years later. They were given to the NIOD Institute for War, Holocaust and Genocide Studies
, and eventually came into the possession of Slier's first cousin, Deborah Slier in 1999. She compiled the letters and published them with comprehensive research on his life in Hidden Letters (2008).
Late adolescence
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The Germans
invaded the Netherlands in May 1940, when he was 16 years old.[1] The Germans in occupied Netherlands ordered that all Jews over the age of six had to wear a six pointed yellow star symbol on their outer clothing, for easy identification, to be the size of a saucer.[2]
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He was transported to Vught concentration camp, North Brabant, in the south of the Netherlands.
References
- ^ Slier & Slier 2008, p. 16.
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Sources
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- Slier, Philip; Slier, Deborah (2008). Slier, Deborah; Shine, Ian (eds.). Hidden Letters. Translated by ISBN 978-1-887734-88-2.