The End…

I had a lot of fun writing this blog, and I learned lot’s of things about the Holocaust and WWII and I hope you did too.
Joseph Heinrich died November 4, 1944 at the age of 68. His wife still lives to tell about Joseph’s true story about bravery, hope, and courage.

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Joaeph’s conclusion part 1

In February of 1944, Joop (remember him?) and his group arranged for Joseph and HIS group to go over the Pyrenees mountains into Spain. Joop made contact with a Jewish French Marquis group, and they knew a whole bunch of people and smugglers who knew the mountains. Joop went to the mountains to say goodbye to Joseph and was caught with the false papers of a man the german’s were looking for, Joseph never saw, or heard from him again.
The smugglers braught the group to the half way point at the peak of the Pyrenees at 3,000 meters, there, they pointed out the way to spain and left.
How would you feel if you were running from the law, cold, hungry, and desperate for freedom somewhere in a mountain 3,000 meters from sea level,in 14 feet of snow, and then you’re guide in these treachourous conditions abandons you with little instructions on what to do next? I would feel a little hopeless, wouldn’t you?
Anyway, after that they hiked for three more day’s in the mountains until they came upona village at the foot of the mountains. The people asked where they had came from, when they answered Pic de Montaville (the name of the mountain peak) the people didn’t beleive them. “No, not in February” they said, “that’s impossible!” but Joseph and his group had finally made it to Freedom!!!

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Joseph and his story continued

                  I can explain why it’s been forever since my last post. You see, we live where we can’t get Internet connection so we have to you a Verizon net card, and a little while ago the net card broke, which meant that I couldn’t blog. So now I’m blogging again!

    Back to Joseph.

          At one point, France started taking in pioneer children because they thought that it would make things better in Holland. Joseph left in April 1943 with his brother.

They were trying to make it to the American Army in Spain but were caught on the way.

   They had made it to Antwerp where they waited in a small little pub for a guide to Spain. While they were waiting two more boy’s showed up, then more, and more, then there were ten boy’s in the pub. the guide had made two trips but the boy’s didn’t know that the second time he was caught. So they waited and waited until some lady told a German guard that there were ten Jews in a pub. Thank goodness they all had papers. The papers said that they were Germans working in France, so the boy’s lied and said they were homesick and came home for a little while. They were put on a train to La Manche France, about twenty miles south of  Bologne.

  They worked in France for about eight months, receiving wages and feeling good about themselves. They were always in constant contact with the Westerweel group because they were allways taking people to the border.