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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
  • Born on: Dec. 23, 1915
  • Born in: Amsterdam, Nederland
  • Died on: April 27, 2005
  • Died in: Blaricum, Nederland

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

Stoppelman was a trader in ready-to-wear clothes.[1] He married Esther Delden on 10 December 1941.[2] Max and Stella wrote to his father Arond Stoppelman in London in August '41 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 blocked 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 had already been staying for a few months.[6] On 12 April 1944 they were arrested there and taken to Amsterdam 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]

In Auschwitz, he 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.[10]

Source personal data.[11] Addresses: Hunzestraat 25, Amsterdam;[12] Rijnstraat 209 I;[3] Kuinderstraat 25.[13]

Footnotes

  1. ^ Telefoongids 1950.
  2. ^ Stadsarchief Amsterdam (SAA), Dienst Bevolkingsregiister, Archiefkaarten (toegangsnummer 30238): Archiefkaart Salomon Delden (1888).
  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.
  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. ^ AFS, Getuigenarchief, Stoppelman: M. Stoppelman aan Hans Westra.
  11. ^ SAA, Dienst Bevolkingsregister, Archiefkaarten (toegangsnummer 30238): Archiefkaart A. Stoppelman (1890); Geni: Meier (Max) Stoppelman.
  12. ^ SAA, Dienst Bevolkingsregister, Archiefkaarten (toegangsnummer 30238): Archiefkaart A. Stoppelman (1890).
  13. ^ Het Joodsch Weekblad, 19 december 1941.