Leonie's Links

Listed below are links relevant to Leonie and her life.

• Amsterdam (c. 1940) and the Generation of Etty Hillesum, a three-part presentation given by Leonie Snatager Penney (a contemporary of Etty Hillesum) at the U.S. Holocaust Museum, May 18, 1995:

• Part 1
• Part 2
• Part 3
• Memories of a Holocaust Survivor in the Netherlands by Leonie Snatager Penney:
• Text
• Video
• YMCA Camp Letts:
• Leonie Penney YMCA Camp Letts Scholarship Fund
• A Family Legacy Lives on at Camp Letts
• Condolence Letter from President Bill Clinton
• The Holocaust: A Legacy That Lives by Ember Penney [2020 First Place Winner, Durham-Chapel Hill Jewish Community Foundation Holocaust Essay Contest]
• Leonie S. Penney, Holocaust survivor and systems analyst:
• Washington Post Obituary by Bart Barnes
• Obituary Comments
• Greenbelt News Review:
• Our Neighbors (Page 8; May 2, 2013)
• Our Neighbors (Page 8; April 4, 2013)
• Newspaper Staff Bid Farewell To Three Retiring Volunteers (Cover; August 2, 2012)
• Accidentally discovered: the famous letter of Etty Hillesum (Please note: The link is to a Dutch-language site; to translate the text, the Chrome browser's language translate feature is suggested. You may also copy/paste the text into an online translator such as Google's.)

We wish to keep this Leonie Penney memorial site a living site so it can continue to grow with input from her friends. We welcome your thoughts, stories and photos of Leonie Penney to share with others on this site. Thank you. ~ Bernard Penney

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