The Hidden Child is an outgrowth of a July 2004 trip to the Netherlands with Maud Dahme and a contingent of twenty New Jersey school teachers. Over the course of one week in the Netherlands, Maud shared her personal story of survival during the Holocaust and brought the group to Oldeborek and Elberg, two towns where she stayed while in hiding during the war. Maud also escorted the group to the Anne Frank House, the Jewish Quarter in Amsterdam, Camp Vught, a concentration camp where many children perished, the Jewish Theatre where Jews were forced to wait for transport, and a Hidden Village where Jews hid in the woods. Other highlights during the trip included a luncheon at the Hague with former US Ambassador, Clifford Sobel, the University of Amsterdam, the Jewish Historical Museum and the Museum of Dutch Resistance in Amsterdam.

Teachers visit with the children of the Kroese family at the farm in Oldebroek where Maud was hidden		The farm house in Oldebroek where Maud and Rita stayed with the Spronk family in hiding		Maud and Hennie Kroese (current owners of the Spronk Farm) in Oldebroek
NJ teachers visit with the Kroese family in Oldeborek		Maud reunites with Jo, her ‘sister’ from Elberg		Maud speaks to NJ teachers outside her ‘home’ in Elberg where Maud was hidden during the war
NJ teachers walk past a guard tower at Camp Vught		The Children’s Memorial at Camp Vught		Tour guide from Camp Vught speaks to teachers about the wooden shoes Jews wore at the camp
Exterior of the Anne Frank House, Amsterdam		One ‘home’ underground where Jews hid in the Hidden Village in Vierhouten		Henk Kormelink speaks to Maud and teachers about the history of the Hidden Village, Vierhouten