Else Leeser-Röttgen goes to New York

Else Röttgen, a sister of Auguste van Pels-Röttgen, was married to the physician Dr Julius Leeser. After their marriage, they lived in in Wanne-Eickel, these days a municipal district in Herne, and moved to Essen in 1938. They had two sons: Helmut and Rolf. With Rolf, the youngest, Mr and Mrs Leeser-Röttgen sailed from Vlissingen to join their eldest son Helmut in the United States. He had left for New York in 1937 with the German Jewish Childrens Aid.^[1]