Lex Aronson are on 20 December 1935 in Amsterdam born, as a son of Leo Aronson and Sara Cohen, both with Dutch nationality and of Jewish source. Shortly after its birth its parents divore, Lex live then with his mother. With her he arrives end '43 in Westerbork and in June 1944 in Bergen Belsen. Both survive the concentration camp. Lex apprehend TB and stays a year in a hospital and a year in a Swiss sanatory. From its fourteenth up to its seventeenth he visits the Jewish H.B.School in Amsterdam, then he follows a course in pedicure, of which he acquires the diploma. Summer 1952 he leaves to London to follow a training to nurse at "The Jewish Hospital" there. Three years later he visits his father in Israel and works he some months in the Rambam Hospital at Haifa. After a lot of wandering which brings him to Erythrea, India and Pakistan, he returns in 1956, in the Netherlands. From the Netherlands he undertakes several travel, successively to Algeria, Cameroon and Lambarene where worked for Dr. Albert Schweitzer. This famous doctor gives him a written letter of thanks in which he expresses his feelings of appreciation for the person of Lex Aronson and his humanitarian philosophical life. In the middle of ' 61 Aronson returns to the Netherlands in ' 62 again to Greece to set off in order there to help with relief of children. A year later committed himself he in a French village for children of unmarried mothers. He Elisabeth here met Cornelia of Dieijen, the Dutch woman with whom he on 11 February 1964 gets married. Ten months later become born from the marriage: Alwin Tswi. Until 1968 the family Aronson Lived in Poortugaal, Netherlands and Lex worked as a nurse in the home for the elderly "Siloam". Afterwards the family establishes himself in the municipality Opsterland in the northern countyside. During the eleven years from its marriage, therefore up to its dead in December 1975 he performed social work in Greece at the request of the Greek orthodoxe church; in a Northern-Brabant at therapeutic summer camps for asthma patients; worked as a nurse in Gabon for the organisation Terre des Hommes, in Nigeria for the Red Cross and in India with Padre Schlooz. In 1971, he starts its study on young with educational difficulties in Groningen. Until its departure to Kurdistan he works also still at the S.O.S. telehone help line in Leeuwarden, Netherlands. On 3 September 1974 Lex Aronson leaves with a car converted to ambulance to Kurdistan to be able help fighting Kurds and the Iraqis in the there dominating fight for independence. At arrival he proves to be ready to work there at but the heavy winter starts and he leaves by the end of December to India. During the winter months worked in the "Home of the Dying" of mother Theresa. Beginning March Alex arrives back in Kurdistan. On 8 March there the clearance of all expatriate starts, Lex does not want take part because he believes his must stay as long as he can do there useful work. On 12 March he arrives, after a long excursion trough the mountains, in the village of Sidakan. From there he writes a letter. On 21 March 1975 he met Dr. David Nabarro, they knew eachother from the Safe The Children Fund in Barzan. These Dr. Nabarro have written to the father of Lex, Leo Aronson that Lex had exchanged his ambulance car for a donkey, and he had lost his medical equipment and passport after he left Barzan. Left were a gun and some papers of the Save The Children Fund, mainly concerning the situation on the spot concerning the possibility of getting aid to the many refugees. Three days later Lex Aronson was arrested in Kirkuk by the marching Iraqi army. Since Kirkuk is on the way of Kurdistan to Bagdad, the presumption exists he was on the way to the Dutch embassy in Bagdad to obtain a new pass, because without it is impossible to pass the border between Iran and Iraq. In the Netherlands it was an unknown fact that he was with arrested, in July 1975 the father of Lex went to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs with the request to be helpful with the detection of its son. The ministry received rather shortly a report from the government of Turkey and Iran that Aronson had been within their area but did not stay. The government of the republic Iraq did not give any answer, even after the request was two times repeated. On 3 November the Dutch Radio Agency however confessed that Aronson had been hung on 11 October in Bagdad because of espionage for Israel, but on 6 November the Iraqi chargé d' affaires communicates that this is reported incorrect and that Aronson has been convicted indeed but not yet executed. After this date still a couple signs of life of Lex has reached its family. He had written messages on the back of the silverpaper of cigaretteboxes, wich came by means of a commission agent at the Dutch embassy in Bagdad. Some days after writing its last letter to his wife and child he must have been assassinated, on 15 March 1976 the secretary of the Iraqi embassy in The Hague calls and communicated that he was three months more earlier (!) executed. Lex' mother travels to Iraq to request the Iraqi authorities to release her son's remains. On 21 May of this year Lex Aronson is re-buried on the Jewish Cemetery of Muiderberg, Netherlands. Sunday 30 October 1976 the stone on its sepulchre is revealed.
...not by power, and not by violence, just by My Spirit...