in Amsterdam in 1992, she interviewed 73 former hidden children, and with questionnaires completed by another 321 attendants, she began her research into the emotional and psychological trauma of hidden children, widening her scope to include the points of view of the children, their biological parents, their non-Jewish foster parents, and their non-Jewish foster siblings. In the 1990s, Evers-Emden published four books in Dutch based on her research. ('Borrowed Children'; 1994) focused on the foster parents who hid the children. ('Hidden During the War: A Closed-Off Past?'; 1995) examined the written responses of 300 hidden children to a questionnaire. ('Shattered Existence'; 1996) interviewed the parents who sent their children into hiding. ('Sharing Your Parents'; 1999) focused on the foster siblings of the hidden children. In 1991, she was decorated by Queen Beatrix of the Netherlands as an officer of the Order of Orange-Nassau. Her son, Raphael Evers, is the Rabbi of Düsseldorf. Evers-Emden died in July 2016, eight days before her 90th birthday. Bibliography ('Borrowed Children'), 1994 ('Hidden During the War: A Closed-Off Past?'), 1995 ('Shattered Existence'), 1996 translated into Hebrew by Mechel Jamenfeld as Hayim Pegumim (Tel Aviv, 2000) ('Sharing Your Parents'), 1999 ('Jewish Anthology: Sketches from an ordinary Jewish life') ('Jewish Anthology Pieces: Columns about life') References External links Portrait of Bloeme Emden with a Jewish star, circa 1942 Oral history interview with Bloeme Evers-Emden (1999) at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum 1926 births 2016 deaths Auschwitz concentration camp survivors Child psychologists Dutch emigrants to Israel Dutch Jews Dutch psychologists Dutch women psychologists Dutch Holocaust survivors Officers of the Order of Orange-Nassau Academic staff of the University of Amsterdam Westerbork transit camp survivors