Bloeme Evers-Emden, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Bloeme Evers-Emden

Dutch child psychologist

Date of Birth: 26-Jul-1926

Place of Birth: Amsterdam, North Holland, Netherlands

Date of Death: 18-Jul-2016

Profession: psychologist, university teacher, feminist

Nationality: Kingdom of the Netherlands

Zodiac Sign: Leo

Bloeme Evers-Emden (Dutch pronunciation: ['blum? ??e?v?rs '?md?(n)]; 26 July 1926 – 18 July 2016) was a Dutch Jewish teacher and child psychologist who extensively researched the phenomenon of "hidden children" during World War II and wrote four books on the subject in the 1990s.
Her interest in the topic grew out of her own experiences during World War II, when she was forced to go into hiding from the Nazis and was subsequently arrested and deported to Auschwitz on the last transport leaving the Westerbork transit camp on 3 September 1944.
Together with her on the train were Anne Frank and her family, whom she had known in Amsterdam.
She was liberated on 8 May 1945. In the 1980s, Evers-Emden earned a doctorate in developmental psychology and began interviewing and writing about the phenomenon of "hidden children" from the points of view of the children, their biological parents, their non-Jewish foster parents, and their non-Jewish foster siblings.
She was also interviewed for several television documentaries on her remembrances of Anne Frank and her family before they went into hiding and after they were sent to Auschwitz.