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Henriette DeFries - Holländer

Henriette Holländer was an aunt of Edith-Frank Holländer.

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Fotograaf onbekend. Collectie Joods Monument.
  • Henriette DeFries - Holländer
  • Born on: Sept. 15, 1865
  • Born in: Eschweiler, Duitsland
  • Died on: Feb. 1, 1943
  • Died in: Auschwitz

Henriëtte DeFries- Holländer, 1939

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Henriette Holländer was a daughter of Benjamin Holländer (1830-1924) and Sara Bertha Menken (1832-1910).[1] Henriette was a sister of Abraham Holländer and therefore Edith's aunt. Henriette was married to Simon DeFries. He was a butcher, just like his father Abraham. The couple got married in 1903 in Aachen, after which they took up residence in Kaldenkirchen in the Bahnhofstraße. The marriage remained childless. 

Henriette and Simon were among the guests at the wedding of Otto Frank and Edith Holländer on 8 May 1925.[2]

Until 1872, the house on Bahnhofstraße had been home to a prayer room for Kaldenkirchen's Jewish community, which was quite small at the time. It then found accomodation in a newly built synagogue until that was destroyed on 10 November 1938, the day of the November pogrom, better known as Kristallnacht. Jewish men were arrested and taken to Dachau concentration camp.[3] Simon died in January 1939 from injuries sustained in a fall down the stairs on the day of the Novemberpogrom in Kaldenkirchen.[4]

In order to escape persecution from the Nazis, Henriette fled to the Nethelands, where she found refuge in Deventer and moved in with Aron Mozes Zendijk (1875-1943) and his wife Tina (1887-1943) and their son Max (1920-1943).[5] This was a butcher's family, as was the related DeFries family. Simon DeFries, was a brother of Tina's mother, Sibilla DeFries, and Henriette therefore, was an aunt of Tina by marriage.[6]

Henriette, together with the Zendijk couple, was arrested in early January 1943 during the last roundup of Jews in Deventer, and arrived in Westerbork on 15 January 1943; from there they were deported to Auschwitz on 29 January and were gassed upon arrival.[7] 

In 1942, Max Zendijk was a messenger for the Deventer chapter of the Joodse Raad (Jewish Council). In late August 1942, Max went into hiding and later tried to flee to Switzerland with his cousin Sallo. Sallo was soon arrested; Max was able to flee to Paris, but was evetually arrested too. Through the Drancy transit camp, he was transported to Auschwitz, where he was gassed immediately upon arrival on 24 June 1943.[5]

Source personal data.[1]

Footnotes

  1. a, b Familienbuch Euregio: Henriette Holländer.
  2. ^ Anne Frank Stichting, Anne Frank Collectie, reg. code A_FamilieledenFrank_III_098: Foto van de huwelijksdag van Otto Frank en Edith Holländer, 12 mei 1925.
  3. ^ Wikipedia: Jüdische Opfer des Nationalsozialismus (Nettetal).
  4. ^ Stolperstein für Anne Franks Großtante, RP Online, 18 February 2016; Wikipedia: Liste der Stolpersteine in_Nettetal..
  5. a, b See: Struikelstenen in Deventer: Familie Aron Mozes Zendijk.
  6. ^ See Akevoth: Family page Abraham Defries. Joods Monument, Henriette DeFries-Holländer, and also the website of Struikelstenen in Deventer, Henriëtte Defries- Holländer, claim that Tina's mother was Henriëtte sister. That is incorrect. Also see: Wikipedia: Jüdische Opfer des Nationalsozialismus (Nettetal) - Familie Defries (Devries).
  7. ^ Struikelstenen in Deventer, Henriëtte Defries- Holländer; Bundesarchiv - Gedenkbuch: Opfer der Verfolgung der Juden unter der nationalsozialistischen Gewaltherrschaft in Deutschland 1933 – 1945: Defries, Henriette.