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Max Stoppelman

Max Stoppelman was the son of the landlady of Jan and Miep Gies. He met up with Peter van Pels in Auschwitz.

Person

  • Meier Stoppelman
  • Amsterdam, Nederland Dec. 23, 1915
  • Blaricum, Nederland April 27, 2005

Meier (Max) Stoppelman was the son of Arond Stoppelman and Rien Stoppelman-van der Reis, the landlady of Jan and Miep Gies. He had a sister two years older than him, Froukje.. Max was a trader in ready-to-wear clothes.[1] He married Esther (Stella) Delden on 10 December 1941.[2] Max and Stella wrote to his father Arond Stoppelman in London in August 1941 that they would wait for his return before marrying.[3] Max Stoppelman worked as a relay worker at the Jewish Council, and managed to get himself and some others false Sperre numbers.[4]

On 25 October 1943, he wrote to his father: "It is a dreadful thing for us to get through. Only a few will succeed."[5]

From late 1943 he was in hiding with the Adriani family on Hoefloo in Laren, where his wife and sister-in-law Debora had already been staying for a few months.[6] Following betrayal, they were arrested there on 12 April 1944 and taken to the detention centre on Weteringschans in AmsterdamAmsterdam the next day.[7] Max's mother, Rien Stoppelman-van der Reis, wrote to her husband in London on 1 May 1944 via the Red Cross that: "12 April was the last thing that was left for me was to say, nothing more".[8] Together with the note in Anne's diary, this gave a good indication of the moment.[9]

Mrs Adriani was released, but on 18 April 1944, the people in hiding were transferred to Westerbork, where they were housed in barrack 67, the penal barrack.[10] On 19 May 1944, the they were deported to Auschwitz in the so-called gypsy transport.[11] This transport consisted of a total of eighteen carriages. Five carriages were for the (estimated 245) gypsies, including approximately 123 children. These carriages were marked with a “Z”. The other carriages were for Jewish deportees and had a Jewish star on them. The transport of 19 May 1944 was captured on film by camp prisoner Rudolf Breslauer, including the moment shortly before the door of one of the carriages was closed. In doing so, he also captured an image of Nazi persecution that has since become world-famous: the Sinti girl Settela Steinbach at one of the carriage doors.[12]

In Auschwitz, Max met Peter van Pels, who told him that his mother, Rien Stoppelman-van der Reis, was still alive. He took Peter under his wing. On 17 January 1945, Stoppelman was put on a transport. Peter was not there; he was probably on another transport.[4] Stoppelman ended up in an outside camp at Flossenburg. In July 1945 he returned to Amsterdam.[13] HIs wIfe perished in Bergen-Belsen on 5 December 1944.[14] His sister-in-law Debora survived the camps in a severely weakened state and made the same return journey to Marseille as Otto Frank. According to Max, Debora died on board during this journey,[13] but a list of Jewish survivors compiled by the Central Registration Office for Jews states that she remained ill after arriving in Marseille on 27 May 1945.[15] She died there three weeks later on 23 June 1945. She was buried in Marseille.

Source personal data.[16] Addresses: Hunzestraat 25, Amsterdam;[17] Rijnstraat 209 I;[3] Kuinderstraat 25.[17]

Footnotes

  1. ^ Telefoongids 1950.
  2. ^ Stadsarchief Amsterdam (SAA), Dienst Bevolkingsregiister, Archiefkaarten (toegangsnummer 30238): Archiefkaart Meier Stoppelman.
  3. a, b Anne Frank Stichting (AFS), afd. Collecties (beheer blauw, bezit Alfred Cohen): Correspondentie via Rode Kruis, nr. 86120.
  4. a, b AFS, Getuigenarchief, Stoppelman: Brief M. Stoppelman, 9 augustus 1995.
  5. ^ AFS, afd. Collecties (beheer blauw, bezit Alfred Cohen): Correspondentie Rode Kruis, nr. 36713/43.
  6. ^ USC Shoah Foundation – The Institute for Visual History and Education: Interview M. Stoppelman, nr. 3780, vanaf 01.02.00 (geraadpleegd in de Mediatheek van het Joods Historisch Museum); Herinneringsbomen Laren: Onderduikers - Hoefloo 6.
  7. ^ Streekarchief Gooi en Vechtstreek, Aanvulling op het archief korps politie gemeente Laren (bestandsnr. SAGV142), plaatsingslijstnr. 6: Registers houdende dag- en nachtrapporten, 13 april 1944, mut. 9.00 uur.
  8. ^ AFS, afd. Collecties (beheer blauw, bezit Alfred Cohen): Correspondentie Rode Kruis, nr. 406803.
  9. ^ Wordt door Anne aangeduid als: M. Anne Frank, Diary Version A, 15 and 18 april 1944, in: The Collected Works, transl. from the Dutch by Susan Massotty, London [etc.]: Bloomsbury Continuum, 2019.
  10. ^ Arolsen Archives – International Center on Persecution, Bad Arolsen, Joodsche Raad Cartotheek: DocID: 130381680 (Esther STOPPELMAN DELDEN); DocID: 130278728 (Debora DELDEN); DocID: 130381741 (Meier STOPPELMAN).
  11. ^ USC Shoa Foundation - The Institute for Visual History and Education, Interview Meier Stoppelman, nr. 3780, 01.19.00.
  12. ^ Herinneringscentrum Kamp Westerbork: 19 mei 1944: het zigeunertransport.
  13. a, b AFS, Getuigenarchief, Stoppelman: M. Stoppelman aan Hans Westra, 25 augustus 1999.
  14. ^ Arolsen Archives, Namensliste der jüdischen Opfer des NS-Regimes in den Niederlanden, 1941-1945, A-Z: DocID: 5153262.
  15. ^ AFS, AFC, reg. code A_OFrank_I_001: 18 lijsten opgemaakt door Centraal Registratie Bureau voor Joden met namen van Joodse overlevenden, 1945, lijst no. 3, lijst van Joden, via Odessa in Marseille aangekomen.
  16. ^ SAA, Dienst Bevolkingsregister, Archiefkaarten (toegangsnummer 30238): Archiefkaart Meier Stoppelman; Geni: Meier (Max) Stoppelman.
  17. a, b SAA, Dienst Bevolkingsregister, Archiefkaarten (toegangsnummer 30238): Archiefkaart Meier Stoppelman.

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