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Richard Holländer

Richard Holländer was a first cousin of Edith Frank-Holländer.

Person

  • Richard Holländer
  • Born on: Nov. 26, 1904
  • Born in: Oberhausen, Duitsland
  • Died on: July 22, 1986
  • Died in: Hartford, CT, USA

RichardHolländer was a son of Moses Max Holländer, a sibling of Abraham Holländer, Edith's father. Max Holländer was married to Mathilde Berg and had four children with her: Alfred, Irene, Ernst and Richard.[1]

When he was young, Richard was a member of Turnklub 1906 from Aachen, a sports club that was supported by Julius and Walter Holländer, Edith's brothers. In 1929, he and his team won first prize in the 800-meter relay at the athletics championships of the Jewish sports club Vintus.[2] It seems that he also took part in the Jeux de l’Enfance, organized during the Paris Summer Olympics of 1924.[3]

In the 1930s Richard Holländer emigrated to Peru and assisted his sister Irene and her children to seek refuge there too.[4] In Peru Richard traded in women's clothing. His last name there changed from Holländer via Hollaender to Hollander. During a Holiday on Ice tour of South America in 1958, Buddy Elias, a cousin of Otto Frank, visited Irene Holländer in Lima, as well as her brother Richard and his wife Käte Calm. Buddy was greatly impressed by the Holländer couple's home and household. In addition to a chauffeur, there were servants, a cook and maids running around, and there was a garden full of roses that was illuminated with different-coloured lights at night.[5]

Richard and Käte had a son, Miguel Max, born in 1947. In 1965 they emigrated to the United States.

Source personal data.[6]

Footnotes

  1. ^ Familienbuch Euregio: Moses Max Holländer.
  2. ^ 'Leichtathletik-Meisterschaften des Vintus: Große Erfolge des Turnklubs 1906', Aachener Anzeiger, 20 juli 1929 (retrieved via Deutsche Zeitungsportal). For sports club Vintus, see Wikipedia: Vintus.
  3. ^ According to his son, Miguel. For the Jeux de l’Enfance, see Wikipedia: 1924 Summer Olympics.
  4. ^ Melissa Müller, Anne Frank: de biografie, 5e geh. herz. dr., Amsterdam: Bert Bakker, 2013, p. 94.
  5. ^ Mirjam Pressler, 'Groeten en liefs aan allen. Het verhaal van de familie van Anne Frank, Amsterdam: Bert Bakker, 2010, p. 364. Otto referred to Buddy's visit to Lima a a letter to Irene. Anne Frank Stichting, Anne Frank Collectie, reg. nr. A_FamilieledenFrank_I_040: Brief van Otto Frank aan Irene Holzer, 13 juni 1958.
  6. ^ Familienbuch Euregio: Richard Holländer.