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One of the most prominent Jewish psychiatrists in the Netherlands, Hans Keilson, died in Holland on May 3 1, 201 1, at the age of 102. Keilson was born in 1909 in a small city on the river Oder in eastern Germany He managed to escape from Nazi Germany and immigrated in 1936 to the Netherlands, where he became a child and youth psychiatrist and psychoanalyst. Keilson was himself a Holocaust survivor. After World War II he became the chief psychiatric consultant of the "Ie Ezrat Hayeled" foundation in Amsterdam, the official guardian of all Jewish orphans who survived the Holocaust and returned to Holland. Almost every orphan was seen by him at least once. Keilson also supervised the social workers who treated and supported these children. Many of those children live at the present time here in Israel.