"Two Keppel brothers from
Noord Scharwoude married Jewish sisters from Amsterdam.
Anna Keppel Roodenburg lived in Noord Scharwoude where the monument is located.
Relatives of Anna and Clara Keppel Roodenburg tried to hide them in a shed where seed potatoes were stored but someone reported them to the Nazi's. They were arrested, sent to Poland where they were gassed in Auschwitz on 6-March-1944. Anna's daughter Elly stayed with the v.Seventer family during that time. Gerda remembers her aunt very well, and
Elly.
Mrs. v.Seventer is a Keppel. She visited us in America. Gerda is Mrs. Gerda v.Seventer Blokker, her daughter who now lives in
Kalowna, British Columbia.
The caption at the top of the memorial is: Door(For) de(the)
oorlog(war) gevallen(fallen) inwoners(inhabitants) van(from) Langedijk
Langedijk consists of four villages in a row united, one being Noord
Scharwoude.
Niesje Keppel hid a Jewish family in the attic of her boathouse during WWII. During that time she told no one except a farmer who brought them food. Her boathouse was next to her house along the canal. When the Canadian army liberated the village the Jewish family emerged
ALIVE! Then the people of the village knew and celebrated.
Grietje Keppel Ijff who we visited in Holland in 1983 is a cousin to Mrs. v.Seventer and Niesje Keppel who is told about in the above story.
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