Bloeme Evers-Emden

Bloeme Evers-Emden
Portrait of Bloeme Emden with a Jewish star, c. 1942
Born	Bloeme Emden (1926-07-26)26 July 1926 Amsterdam, Netherlands
Died	18 July 2016(2016-07-18) (aged 89) Herzliya, Israel
Resting place	Israel
Occupation	Lecturer child psychologist writer
Language	Dutch
Education	PsyD, 1980s
Alma mater	University of Amsterdam
Subject	Hidden children of World War II
Notable works	Geleende Kinderen ('Borrowed Children') Ondergedoken Geweest, Een Afgesloten Verleden? ('Hidden During the War: A Closed-Off Past?') Geschonden Bestaan ('Shattered Existence') Je ouders delen ('Sharing Your Parents')
Notable awards	Order of Orange-Nassau
Spouse	Hans Evers
Children	Raphael Evers

Bloeme Evers-Emden (Dutch pronunciation: [ˈblumə ˌʔeːvərs ˈɛmdə(n)]; 26 July 1926 – 18 July 2016^[1]) was a Dutch lecturer and child psychologist who extensively researched the phenomenon of "hidden children" during World War II and wrote four books on the subject in the 1990s. Her interest in the topic grew out of her own experiences during World War II, when she was forced to go into hiding from the Nazis and was subsequently arrested and deported to Auschwitz on the last transport leaving the Westerbork transit camp on 3 September 1944. Together with her on the train were Anne Frank and her family, whom she had known in Amsterdam. She was liberated on 8 May 1945.

In the 1980s, Evers-Emden earned a doctorate in developmental psychology and began interviewing and writing about the phenomenon of "hidden children" from the points of view of the children, their biological parents, their non-Jewish foster parents, and their non-Jewish foster siblings. She was also interviewed for several television documentaries on her remembrances of Anne Frank and her family before they went into hiding and after they were sent to Auschwitz.