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Fate of a jewish handicapped boy

Door: Jigal Nihom

Jozeph was the only of his family who did not survive the Holocaust. Because of a handicap he lived in Amsterdam and was caught. The rest of his family was hidden in the province and survived camp Westerbork. In the 50's they immigrated to the USA.

Stolperstein Jozeph Nihom

Jozeph (born 24 nov 1920) was the eldest of three in the family of father Salomon Nihom and mother Helena van Gelder. He had a younger brother Jaap/Jack and sister Rosetta/Ron. Jozeph had a handicap and could not walk unassisted. He grew up in Nijkerk where many members of the Nihom family lived. At a certain age he moved to Amsterdam to be cared for in the "Joodsche Invalide". With caregivers or family he made a daily walk. On March 1st 1943 when they came back from a walk they saw that a raid was going on. That day almost all of the inhabitants and personnel (256 persons) were carried away by the Germans (and most of them killed in Sobibor on March 13th). Jozeph got away and was hidden with family at the Amstelveenseweg.
Not yet two months later he was caught and send to Westerbork. He was deported on the transport of May 4th and killed 7th of May 1943 in Sobibor.
A stone in his memory (Stolperstein) is not in front of his former home, but to be seen in the museum in Nijkerk. 
His parents and brother and sister survived in hiding and even Westerbork. The family immigrated in 1956 to the USA.
Jozeph is not to be confused with his first cousin Joseph Nihom with comparable and sad demographics (Nijkerk, 11 October 1922 – Sobibor, 9 July 1943). Of his family all but one did not survive the Holocaust. Look for his data at this monument too.