Hiding

From 1942 until the end of the German occupation, around 28,000 Jews tried to escape the threatening situation they were in by assuming a different identity or going into hiding. Roughly a third of these people were betrayed or discovered; two-thirds lived to see liberation. 

At the end of 1942, Avraham’s cousin Sol Kimel had to go into hiding. He was in danger because his mother, Avraham’s aunt Eva, had been arrested. 

In the summer of 1943, the Reiner family also went into hiding and became what the Dutch called “undergrounders”. They received help from members of the Dutch resistance and from an employee of Jo Reiner’s expropriated company.