Ronny Naftaniel is the son of a German Jew who had survived the Holocaust in the Netherlands after already having fled Nazi Germany in the aftermath of Kristallnacht in 1938 . Naftaniel 's father was immediately interned in Westerbork - in 1938 a refugee camp where Jews from Germany who had fled Nazi Germany were brought to - after crossing the border with the Netherlands . During the Nazi occupation of the Netherlands , he succeeded in preventing his own deportation to the death camps in occupied Poland . He was liberated by Canadian forces in 1945 while still being held in Westerbork , which had been transformed into a transit camp for more than 100,000 Dutch Jews to Auschwitz , Sobibor , Bergen-Belsen and Theresienstadt by the Nazis
Kristallnacht
Kristallnacht
Ronny Naftaniel