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Rolf Winterberger

Rolf Winterberger's family offered shelter to Peter Schiff, a friend of Anne Frank, and to his mother and step-father.

Person

  • Rolf Winterberger
  • Born on: Nov. 17, 1923
  • Born in: Dresden, Duitsland

Rolf Winterberger had emigrated from Meissen, Germany to the Netherlands in 1933 with his parents Max Winterberger (1895) and Selma Winterberger-Thorner (1896) and his younger brother Clausz Winterberger (1929).[1]

Peter Schiff, a friend of Anne Frank, lived with his mother and step-father Rudolf Kosterlitz on the Zuider Amstellaan, with the Winterberger family.[2] On 25 February 1939 Rolf and his parents had their German citizenship or ‘deutschen Staatsangehörigkeit’ revoked.[3] Kosterlitz informed the police on 16 July 1942 that the five members of the Winterberger family (Rolf, his father, mother, brother and cousin) had been missing since the previous day.[4] According to a Swiss government list dated 2009, the Winterbergers reached Geneva during the Second World War.[5]

Rolf Winterberger married Ruth Nussbaum in 1950.[6] After the war, he worked as a photographer for the news agency ANP and in 1953 created a series of photos of the flood disaster in Zeeland.[7] In 1955 he left for the United States and became an American citizen. In Michigan he worked as a press photographer using the name Winter.[8] He passed away in 2000 and his wife Ruth died in 2004.[9]

Source personal data.[6] Addresses: Volkerakstraat 6 II, Amsterdam (1935); Zuider Amstellaan (1941).[6]

Footnotes

  1. ^ Stadsarchief Amsterdam (SAA), Bevolkingsregister tijdelijk verblijf (toegangsnummer 5007): registratiekaart Max Winterberger, inv. nr. 262.
  2. ^ SAA, Dienst Bevolkingsregister, Archiefkaarten (toegangsnummer 30238): Archiefkaart R. Kosterlitz; Anne Frank, Version A, 6 January 1944, in: The Collected Works; transl. from the Dutch by Susan Massotty, London [etc.]: Bloomsbury Continuum, 2019.
  3. ^ Hans Georg Lehmann & Michael Hepp (Einl.), Die Ausbürgerung deutscher Staatsangehöriger 1933 – 45 nach den im Reichsanzeiger veröffentlichten Listen. Band 1. Listen in chronologischer Reihenfolge, München: Saur, 1985, p. 127.
  4. ^ SAA, Gemeentepolitie Amsterdam, inv. nr. 6650: Meldingsrapporten Pieter Aertszstraat, 16 juli 1942, mut. 19.40.
  5. ^ Archives d'Etat de Genève, Personnes enregistrées à la frontière genevoise durant la Deuxième Guerre mondiale, etat au 30.07.2009.
  6. a, b, c SAA, Dienst Bevolkingsregister, Archiefkaarten (toegangsnummer 30238): Archiefkaart Max Winterberger, inv. nr. 934.
  7. ^ Zie ANP Foto: Waternoodsramp-Stellendam-Schade.
  8. ^ "Oud-Nederlands fotograaf kreeg negen prijzen", Utrechtsch Nieuwsblad, 14 augustus 1961.
  9. ^ "Find a Grave Index," database, FamilySearch, Rolf Winter, Burial; Find a Grave; Legacy.com: Ruth Winter Obituary.