Bernard (Ben) Goudsmit came from Amsterdam when 400 Jewish men were arrested in 1941. He walked to Amstelveen and arrived at the Van der Lende family on Van IJsselsteinlaan. During a raid by the Sicherheitsdienst he said he was 17 and was allowed to stay. He fled back to Amsterdam. During a major raid he and his wife Esther boarded the train to Naaldwijk on 14 July 1942, where they went into hiding in a cinema. They went back to Amsterdam and from there to the Veluwe, where they moved from one address to another. Their three surviving parents were deported at the end of 1942. Ben and Esther went back to Amstelveen. Esther became a maid for the Hendrikse family, who at the time were head of the municipal central accounting department and worked in the resistance. After some wandering, Ben found shelter with Arie Blokland on Heemraadschapslaan in December 1943. After a German invasion, during which the Jewish people in hiding were not found in the house, Ben went into hiding with various other families. His last hiding place was with farmer De Groot at Amstelveenseweg 845. De Groot gave his people in hiding the names of his bulls. For safety reasons, he did not want to know the names. The people in hiding all had a task on the farm. During his stay with De Groot, Ben Goudsmit experienced all sorts of things: betrayal, blackmail, burglary and fire. Ben Goudsmit said about his three-year period in hiding in 1980: “That time is permanently etched in your life.”