223697 Abraham M. Muhlbaum Dutch Resistance from:Falls Church, Virginia, USA Abraham M. Muhlbaum was a survivor of the Holocaust and a member of the Dutch resistance during the second world war.
He was born in 1922 in Berlin. Just before the Kristallnacht attacks in that city in 1938 he and his Jewish family managed to escape to Amsterdam, Holland.
The German occupation of Holland began in 1940. Mr. Muhlbaum's parents and his three siblings were sent to a detention camp in 1943. Abraham escaped out of a window and crossed roofs to escape with fate.
After this escapade he joined the Dutch resistance, finding shelter and obtaining faked identity papers for others.
He used false papers to hide his Jewish identity. He was interned as a political prisoner, being moved between several prisons and labour camps. He was imprisoned in Dachau concentration camp for eight months of the war until it was liberated in 1945.
After the war he became a research physicist for the navy, living near Washington, USA.
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