Philip Pach Speyer met his wife Michele Speyer in 1991, and they moved to Scottsdale, Arizona in 1993. Philip has two daughters Jodyne and Jill, as well as two grandsons, Matthew and Andrew. Philip retired in 1997. Over the years Philip had…

Elkan Speyer had family who had managed to escape from the Netherlands to the United States in the late 1930’s before the German occupation. They were willing to help sponsor Mina, Elkan, Philip and Regina with their move to the U.S. The United…

When Philip and his mother returned to Amsterdam, it had only been a short time since the liberation of the Netherlands. Food and other supplies were rationed. Jewish people who survived and returned to Amsterdam had lost most if not all of their…

In May 1945, the Canadians liberated the Netherlands from Nazi Germany. Philip was asleep in his foster home while there were guns firing and much yelling and screaming while the people of Utrecht were celebrating the news of the liberation. One…

The Kindjes Haven employed local girls from the neighborhood to work as assistants, and one of those girls was Jannie Spier. Jannie was sixteen years old at the time and ended up taking Philip home with the intention of asking her widowed mother,…

After being hidden for several days in the coal bin, a group of students from an underground network were able to pick Philip up and move him through several other safe locations before taking him to his final destination in Utrecht, a city about…

Philip Pach was born May 30, 1940 in occupied Amsterdam. While his mother Mina took care of him, his father Leendert worked as a tailor, designing dresses and suits. When the Nazis invaded the Netherlands on May 10 (20 days before Philip’s birth),…