brothers and sisters unlock a suitcase with mysterious content inside who revealed the dark secret of their parents
This story is an old couple from the Netherlands who spent all their lives, keeping a secret. The secret was kept in a red and rusty suitcase. The couple
This story is an old couple from the Netherlands who spent all their lives, keep a secret. The secret has been kept in a red and rusty suitcase. The couple namely, Barend and Mimi had three children and surprisingly none of them knew what was inside this suitcase. Whenever they would ask their parents, they dodge the question or even scold them. The suitcase should not be open. Although the brothers and sisters remained far from the suitcase, they were very curious to know what he held. And finally, one day, they made it open.
The suitcase
We have all used suitcases while heading from one place to another. But how many of us use it to keep a secret secret hidden? This Barend couple and Mimi Boers Dwinger, from Netherland, had the darkest part of their lives concealed in an old rusty suitcase. The couple had three children who grew up to be responsible and polite.
Idol parents
No doubt, the couple gave all the good attributes to their children. However, they gave them the key to the suitcase in the reserve for decades. Nobody could never have imagined that the couple who looked so close and warm from the outside was all about the secrets of the interior.
Not a word
Surprisingly, the couple never talked about the suitcase with their children too. It was strange that people usually share their secrets and heritage with their children, but the man or woman never mentioned the suitcase to them, let alone give them the key. They had found the suitcase on their own. And when they finally asked questions about the suitcase to their parents, the couple .......
Strange
Well, it was not expected. The panic on their face was clear. And then instead of answering their questions, the couple reprimanded them and told them not to touch the suitcase ever. They never asked about the suitcase. However, fear on their parents' faces triggered curiosity among them.
Natural curiosity
It is not that the couple was a conservative state of mind. In fact, they did not stop their children to make their own decisions. They just had made a rule for them who was not to unlock the suitcase ever.
Respect for their wishes
Children also respect the rules. They did not forced their parents to tell them about the suitcase and the mysterious thing held inside. However, that does not mean they do not know. They would get the opportunity to open it, but not so early.
An idiot apparently rule
Remembers the son of the couple, "like the children, we knew that there was a suitcase that we would not touch. We could not " . They never heard their parents talking about the suitcase. It seemed that the suitcase does not exist. But he was there, waiting for someone to open it.
Do not remember
One thing that the brothers and sisters had noticed was that the couple never remembered their past before them. They did not know anything about their families, nor that they never visit parents in their entire life.
Asked
The years have passed and had aged Barend Boers died in 1979 at the age of 61 their son finally gathered his courage and, finally, asked his mother of the suitcase.
A secret secret of several decades
Since his childhood, André Boers wanted to know about the contents of the suitcase. Now that his father was gone, he could not understand the point of keeping the suitcase as a more mystery. He finally went to his mother and asked him for permission to unlock the suitcase.
Not this one
Over time, the importance of everything weakens, even the secrets. André was sure that everything resided in the suitcase for decades would have lost his value with time. That's why he asked his mother about it.
Permission denied
However, his mother refused the permission of him. Even after so many decades, the contents of the suitcase had a profound impact on the old lady. Boers remember his mother saying, "No, no need, there's no time. He did not blame his curiosity more.
Not ordinary
Boers had now completely understood that the suitcase was not ordinary. There was something on this subject. His mother was just not ready to give content. Does it have something to do with the mysterious past of the couple? Soon everyone was going to know.
Difficult to manage
Boers says, "I finally understood, of course, that it was difficult for her to face what was in the suitcase ..." What was so extraordinary in the suitcase? Even if how much he wanted, he could not unlock it. But that was not the only chance he got.
History of the family
The Boers also did not know much about the past of their parent. All he knew was that the first of his parents met in their childhood, at the same time that their families were in the same line of textile activity.
Good friends
At the age of 14, Barend took a learning under the father of Mimi. They were both good friends and their friendship turned into a marriage when Barend, 28-year-old boy jumped the question at 21 mimi.
1 year Matrimonial Happiness
The couple bound the knot in Leeuwarden, the hometown of Mimi in 1939. The nuptiales took place in a local synagogue. Subsequently, the married couple settled in Amsterdam. However, everything was going to change for a lot of love couple in less than a year.
Not so beautiful
The couple who made beautiful memories had a big shot when Nazis attacked the Netherlands just one year after marriage. However, the couple managed to escape the Holocaust.
A miraculous escape
All their dreams have broken up when Nazis nabbed and incarcerated Mimi. Depending on the usual order, the woman would have been taken to the concentration camp. However, Barend did not let it happen. He managed to get her out of that. "He may have been assisted by the Dutch metro. He may have paid money to release. I do not know, "believes Boers.
A refugee camp
They did not have much time, the couple crossed Belgium, France and Spain to escape the Holocaust. Finally, they ended up by Jamaica in a camp established for Dutch Jewish refugees. They stayed there for a moment.
In Canada to fight
After a while, Barend flew to Canada to participate in the war along the Dutch battalion. He received appropriate training before the man was entirely trained, he was sent to England where he took the enemies in the war.
Return to Holland
The man managed to survive the war and made a return to the Netherlands to get tragic news. He learned that all his brothers had been murdered brutally as he was absent. Fortunately, his mother managed to survive while hiding in a cabinet for three years. But all this has something to do with the suitcase?
Return to the Netherlands
It was May 5, 1945, the woman of Barend remained in England. She had moved to the country a year after coming to Jamaica. Barend put him a telegram asking him to come back. In the letter, he wrote: "Holland is released. You can come back."
From only alone
Mimi returned to Amsterdam and the duo restarted his life together. Barend restored his family textile plant and worked toward its growth. WHEREAS MIMI focused on the nourished of his family. Strangely, of their good moments in bad weather, they did not leave their suitcase. And now even after decades, many things had changed, but the suitcase and its content remained the same.
A painful past
In 2007, Mimi said goodbye to the world. The woman died just before her 91st birthday. Both had gone to leave the mysterious suitcase they had forbidden to their children to touch each other. So what would happen with this suitcase now?
Set down
Boers and his brothers and sisters finally decided to unravel this mystery. The suitcase was still inside the store. Covered with a thick layer of dust, the suitcase gave its enigmatic vibrations. They unlocked it and saw ......
There was
No need to say that the suitcase had a lot of things inside. But among them, there was one thing that made them give up everything they held in their hands. Now it was very clear for why their parents have never told them about the suitcase.
The treasures of the family
To begin with, the suitcase was full of letters, records and war medals most likely earned by their fathers during his passage in the army. They put the shot and crossed every and everything. However, there was nothing in these documents or letters that were to be kept as a secret. But their doubts were dissipated soon when they reached the bottom of the suitcase.
The wedding film
The Boers remember lively "at the bottom of the suitcase, I found small boxes that had the name Kodak written on them." It was a video on April 18, 1939, scribbled on it. The video was 8 mm long. What was it? The brothers and sisters would soon understand.
Faces of foreigners
They inserted the video into their cassette player and pressed the playback button. The video despite being so old ran well. He presented a bride and a groom with a large crowd in a town hall and later in the synagogue.
Party
The film produced on the monitoring of newly brides invented with celebrations involving their family and the nearest friends. The brothers and sisters could not understand who were they. They had never seen each other in their lives
A sad realization
But soon, they started recognizing the faces. The bride and groom in the video were their parents. It was their wedding video. They had never seen this video. Surprisingly, their parents do not have revealed that they really had a wedding video. However, apart from their parents, no matter how much they tried, they could not understand who was in the video.
Forgotten family
The Boers replied, "I saw so many people I did not know, aunts and the uncles I could not identify me." That's why their parents kept him with their children while the memories of the past were unbearable. In addition, none of those of the video lived then see the faces of loved ones had to have been painful for the couple.
A treasure of archives
The Boers revealed: "Most people you see in this wedding movie were not alive a few years later." "All were murdered in the camps. I never met them. "The video was indeed valuable and had an important part of the story. So he thought of sharing it in the world.
A big mistake
He knew that his parents never wanted them to see the video, but at the same time, it was important that the world can see how a war initiated for territories and domination has taken many lives and families in ruins.
Very emotional
Boers said it was "" the very emotional opportunity to see my grandparents, a great-grandmother, uncles, aunts and many others just a few years before most of them were murdered by the Nazis. "
What to do?
On the one hand, he wanted to let the world know about the video and the other, he thought of his parents who did not want this video to come out of this suitcase. He said, "My parents never talked about the war and did not want to face what happened."
Share the movie with the world
However, Boers decided to put the video to light. Boers that serves as Chairman of the Dutch Jew Research Center at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem finally took the decision. Boers Put the video on YouTube and also shared it with the Friesland province's staff archives.
Unbelievable
Boers explains their reaction, "they fell from their chairs. They were looking for years for the documentation of the life of the local Jewish community and had reconciled the fact that it did not exist. "
It's here
Archivist of the Film Film Archive, Syds Wiersma said: "For decades, we are looking for sequences of the Jewish community before the war, and now here."
Hope offer
The film describes not only life before the war, but more than that. "He offers hope - hope that all the people of this film died in the camps, that some have managed to escape, after all," said Syds.
Only the video
The Holocaust had almost destroyed the Frisian Jewish community. And this video is the only video featuring a Frisian Jewish community before the tragic event. Without a doubt, he gathered views in Lakes once the Frison Film archive launched. You do not want to watch the video?
Video
Clearly, in the video, the bride has put on a suitable satin wedding dress. It can be seen on a car pulled by a horse. She rides the car with Barend Boers, her fiance wearing a black suit. The sky is clear. This is one of the sunny days of spring.
The Shul
Subsequently, the couple turns to a local synagogue of the Leeuwarden Town Hall. The video then focuses on Shul's entry point that is cluttered with men and women who participate. The crowd includes premises from the Jewish district of the same city of poverty and the same provincial city. They all gathered to attend the case.
Brothers of the bride
The bride had two brothers and both were pilots. He who served in the British army can be seen in the video while the other who worked for the Dutch army was absent from taking a flight class.
Guests
And soon the video started capturing the interior of the synagogue. The synagogue is gourd with wedding guests. Abraham Solomon Levonison is responsible for the chief rabbi of the region. The man puts a black hexagonal hat.
Home
Then, the reception is the reception in which the couple seems to all relaxed. The reception took place at the German Eagle, the local Kosher Jewish hotel. The camera covers guests chatting by drinkingadvocaat - Dutch of chicken milk and laughter when you see the camera. And finally, the groom can be seen kissing his bride on the forehead.
A bad change
The couple and the guests did not know at that time that their life will change and that in many cases it will end in a year. It's heartbreaking to see innocent lives becoming an emissary goat at war.
Story
So how is an important part of the story come to light. The couple who managed to keep the secret of the video had no idea what they kept from the world.
