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Ruth Weisz - Neumann

Ruth Neumann and her husband were sheltered by the Van Hoeve couple, who delivered vegetables to those hiding in the Secret Annex.

Person

  • Ruth Hanna Weisz - Neumann
  • Born on: May 15, 1910
  • Born in: Berlijn, Duitsland
  • Died on: May 10, 1945
  • Died in: Flossenbürg, Duitsland

Seamstress[1] Ruth Hanna Weisz-Neumann married Martin Nochem in Berlin in 1934. The couple divorced in 1939. On 24 April 1940 she married Richard Weisz in Amsterdam.[1] Later on, the couple were taken into hiding by the Van Hoeve couple (the veg and potato man who delivered produce to those looking after the people in the Secret Annex). On 25 May 1944 she and her husband [2] were arrested by the SD officers Pieter Schaap, Klaas Nap, Douwe Capelle and policeman Koning, after being betrayed.[3] According to Van Hoeve's statement, the SD was informed by an anonymous letter.[4]

After their arrest, the Weisz couple were transferred for interrogation to the SD in Euterpestraat and not long afterwards transported to Westerbork. As arrested people in hiding, they were regarded as prisoners and locked up in Penal Barrack 67. On 3 September 1944 Ruth and her husband were sent from Westerbork to Auschwitz, where they arrived on 5 September.[5] After that, they were separated. On 28 October, Richard Weisz was sent to concentration camp Stutthof in occupied Poland, and then on to the all-men’s camp Hailfingen in Baden-Württemberg, Southern Germany, in November 1944, where he died on 7 January 1945. On 28 February 1945, Ruth was deported to concentration camp Flossenbürg in Bavaria. She most likely perished there (declared dead 10 May 1945).[6]

Source personal data.[7] Addresses: Rubensstraat 60 I, Amsterdam (1939); Jan van Eijckstraat 26 II (April 1940).[1]

Footnotes

  1. a, b, c Stadsarchief Amsterdam (SAA), Dienst Bevolkingsregister, Archiefkaarten (toegangsnummer 30238: Archiefkaart R.H. Neumann.
  2. ^ Anne refers to them as: two Jews. Anne Frank, Diary Version A, 25 May 1942, in: The Collected Works, transl. from the Dutch by Susan Massotty, London [etc.]: Bloomsbury Continuum, 2019.
  3. ^ Sytze van der Zee, Vogelvrij. De jacht op joodse onderduiker, Amsterdam: De Bezige Bij, 2010,  p. 371. For Schaap, Nap, Capelle and Koning, see: Ad van Liempt & Jan H. Kompagnie (red.), Jodenjacht: de onthutsende rol van de Nederlandse politie in de Tweede Wereldoorlog, Amsterdam, Balans, 2011.
  4. ^ Anne Frank Stichting, Getuigenarchief, Hoeve, van: Verslag van oorlogsbelevenissen door H. van Hoeve, “Groenteman van Anne Frank”.
  5. ^ Het Nederlandse Rode Kruis, Den Haag, Oorlogsnazorg: Transportlijst 3 september 1944.
  6. ^ Volker Mall, Johannes Kuhn, Harald Roth, Die Häftlinge des KZ-Außenlagers Hailfingen/Tailfingen: Daten und Porträts aller Häftlinge, 2. erw. und überarb. Aufl., Norderstedt: Books on Demand, 2021, p. 507
  7. ^ SAA, Dienst Bevolkingsregister, Archiefkaarten (toegangsnummer 30238: Archiefkaart R.H. Neumann; Van der Zee, Vogelvrij, p. 494.