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Cassutto
Cassutto is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: * Ernest Cassutto (1919–1985), Dutch Holocaust survivor * Elisabeth Cassutto (1931–1984), wife of Ernest Cassutto See also *Cassuto Cassuto is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: * Judah Cassuto (1808–1893), Dutch-German hazzan (cantor) of the Portuguese-Jewish community * Sherry Cassuto (1957-2016), American rower * Solica Cassuto, Greek actress, and secon ... {{Short pages monitor ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Elisabeth Cassutto
Elisabeth "Elly" Cassutto (1931–1984) was the wife of Rev. Ernest H. Cassutto, a fellow Holocaust survivor from The Netherlands. Elly Rodrigues as she was known, was born in Amsterdam, the Netherlands, on April 23, 1931. She and her older brother, Henry, came from an observant Jewish family. She was a neighbor and schoolmate of Anne Frank Annelies Marie "Anne" Frank (, ; 12 June 1929 – )Research by The Anne Frank House in 2015 revealed that Frank may have died in February 1945 rather than in March, as Dutch authorities had long assumed"New research sheds new light on Anne Fra .... Like Anne, she and her family were forced to go into hiding when the Germans occupied the Netherlands during WW II. She and her brother were split up and sent to the Dutch countryside, to a small village called Hazerswoude-Dorp in the mid-west of Holland. They were hidden by two Christian sisters, Margriet "Grietje" Bogaards and Annie Ketel. During that time, Elly had to assimilate herself ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ernest Cassutto
Ernest H. Cassutto (1 December 1919 – 18 March 1985) was a Dutch Holocaust survivor who converted to Christianity during World War II. Holocaust Story Born in Probolinggo in the Dutch East Indies (Indonesia) he was the middle son of secular Jewish parents. His father was a law professor in the Dutch East Indies. The family returned to The Hague, the Netherlands, in 1934. During the German occupation of the Netherlands, his family was hidden in several locations throughout the country. In 1944, Ernest was captured and imprisoned in Rotterdam and his fiance was sent to a concentration camp and was killed. He was rescued by a Dutch Christian underground worker just before he was to be executed by the Nazis as the war came to a close. Conversion and Life in America Ernest later became a minister in the Dutch Reformed Church, and then immigrated to the United States in 1952, under the auspices of the Hebrew Christian Alliance and the Reformed Church of America. He settled in th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |