Ms. Vered Kater was born in 1943 in Eindhoven, Nazi-occupied Netherlands. Her earliest years were spent in hiding. The Nazis forced her family to hide to survive, but the family was unable to hide together. Fortunately, Ms. Kater’s father worked in the Philips factory. Mr. Frits Philips found a hiding place for all his Jewish employees. Ms. Kater was taken in by Joop and Joke Kuiper and spent her fi rst three years living as their only child. They risked their lives to conceal Ms. Kater’s Jewish identity and shield her from the Nazis and the horrors of the Holocaust. After the war, Ms. Kater decided to become a nurse to help people and has built a legacy as a health worker, traveling to developing countries to administer aid to people in need. She often shares in-depth accounts of her story of survival. In 2019 Ms. Kater delivered her testimony during the annual Holocaust observance organized by the United Nations Information Centre in Yangon, Myanmar.
7 ноя 2022
