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Ida van Pels registers in Aerdenhout

Ida Henriette van Pels is an older sister of Hermann van Pels.

A few weeks after the November pogroms, she left Osnabrück and settled in Aerdenhout, Bloemendaal municipality.[1] There she lived with Julius Schloss and his wife.[2] Schloss was a board member of the Bijenkorf department store and previously also of the German department store chain Tietz.[3] After about a year, she moved in with her sister Henny in Amsterdam, before emigrating to Chile a few weeks later.[1]

Footnotes

  1. a, b Stadsarchief Amsterdam (SAA), Dienst Bevolkingsregister, Archiefkaarten, toegang 30238, inv. nr. 626: archiefkaart I.H. van Pels.
  2. ^ SAA, Diens Bevolkingsregister, Gezinskaarten, toegang 5422: gezinskaart J. Schloss.
  3. ^ Julian Castle Stanford (Julius Schloss), Reflections. The diary of a German-Jew in hiding, z.p.: Judah L. Magnes Memorial Museum, 1965, p. 1, 2.