After the war many family members miraculously survived, coming up from hiding or from the Japanese prison camps. Next you see the "jodenster", jewish star", George Cassuto supposedly wore on his coat or anyway had in his possesion. I found it in his little blue suitcase, which is now laying beside me. Below you see the photo's of oma Carolien, opa Ies and their youngest son George, dated 20 october 1945.
The three photo's were sent to India, where eldest son Max was recovering from the slave labor under the Japanese.
I quote the words written by oma Carolien on the backside of her portrait: "Moeder, die heel wat verouderd is zendt deze foto aan haar lieven oudsten zoon en als God 't geve, aan Puck en Robbie."
("Mother, grown old quite a bit, sends this picture to her dear eldest son and God willing to Puck and Robbie")
See also het letter of Nov. 2 1945 to Puck
When you click on each of the three photo's you will see them in full size

 
Puck, Robbie and Max, photo taken in Calcutta, India in January 1946 after their miraculous reunion after the hardships of the Pacific war.

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reunited!

rare little photo of the family just reunited after the war, 1946, in front of the
Badhuisweg 86, Scheveningen (above them the windows of Opa's study)
from left to right: Puck, Max, Carolien (Oma), Rob, Ernest, George, Ies (Opa)

picture, taken in 1949 in Scheveningen before the 86 Badhuisweg, from left to right, Ies Cassuto, Grietje Bogaarts ("tante Grie", foster-mother to Elly Rodrigues, who was in hiding wirh her during the war), Lien Cassuto-Winkel, George and Ernest Cassutto. Elly, the still his fiancee, took the picture. It was sent to Puck Cassuto-van Zuiden (wife to Max) on the occasion of her birthday. On the backside Ernest had written congatulations and the sentence: "Goed boxje, he, hebben we gekocht" (Good camera we have bought, didn't we)...On the right you see the wooden staircase to the balcony, on which Lien ("oma Cassuto", I remember the dress she wears on this photo was lila) has been sitting so many hours (and I, RC, as a kid too)

‹‹ Badhuisweg now

Cassuto's in Holland 1958



the greater Cassuto family gathered around (grand)mother Carolien Cassuto in 1958
standing in back row from left to right: Ab, Ernest, Elly, George, Max
before them: Hetty, tante Grie (second mother to Elly), Carolyn, oma Cassuto, Puck, Marilyn, Rob
sitting in front: Irene

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GeorgeCassuto Izn at his wedding with Hanneke van Royen in 19..
At the time he was a naval chaplain.