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1946 (Apr 27) Stampless printed Netherlands General Consulate Singapore crested envelope to the Information Bureau for Wartime Foster Children, Amsterdam cancelled scarce violet NETHERLANDS POST OFFICE / date / SINGAPORE cds with red ink Dienst inserted…..After the 3rd Riech 9-10 November 1938 Kristallnacht attacks against Jewish people many children fled from Germany, some alone. Approx 1800 arrived in Holland, some stayed others moved on. Among 863 Kindertransport children staying in the Netherlands in July 1942, 74 percent were deported and of those deported around 81 percent were killed. Initially when Germany invaded 123 Jewish children living in Amsterdam were placed & hidden in rural area foster homes by Hanna von der Voort, who was eventually captured & tortured but despite this said nothing. She died in 1956 partly as a result of the torture sh received..See :- https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/social-science-history/article/abs/jewish-refugee-children-in-the-netherlands-during-world-war-ii-migration-settlement-and-survival/1F1D63A3CF1D59273F8CDBC1D363EFC9https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/social-science-history/article/abs/jewish-refugee-children-in-the-netherlands-during-world-war-ii-migration-settlement-and-survival/1F1D63A3CF1D59273F8CDBC1D363EFC9 & http://www.godutch.com/newspaper/index.php?id=344