Marloes Sonnenveld, right, with her brother in Rosh Hanikra, January 2021. (Kan via JTA)
AMSTERDAM (JTA) A Holocaust survivor has been pleading with the government to allow the Dutch great-granddaughter of his rescuer to live in Israel with her parents.
Simi Liebel has written to the Interior Ministry, asking it to reverse its rejection of the residency application of Marloes Sonnenveld, a university student studying in Jerusalem. Her great-grandmother, Truus Meijerink, hid Liebel in her home for three years.
“I feel sad that I even need to help her,” Liebel told the Kan public broadcaster in a report aired Sunday. “I’m ashamed of my country that my help is even needed. But I will do anything.”
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