Werner Goldschmidt
Werner Goldschmidt rented a room from the Frank family.
Person
Werner Goldschmidt lived with the Frank family at Merwedeplein as a sub-tenant.[1] Goldschmidt came to the Netherlands from Berlin.[2] He was married to a gentile German wife from 1936 to 1938.[2] He lived with his mother Hertha Kaufmann in The Hague, Huizen and Naarden. In March 1942 they came to Amsterdam because of the mandatory 'evacuations'.[3] His second marriage, to Eva Schwarzschild, took place on 5 August 1942.[4] According to the population register, he was a technical adviser and a salesman in furniture.[2] Later he worked as a stoker in the Joodse Invalide, a nursing home for elderly and disabled Jews in Amsterdam.[5]
The circumstances of his arrest in the summer of 1942 are described in the memoires of his sister-in-law Ellen Schwarzschild.[6] At the time, he was living on Merwedeplein. Ellen Schwarschild also wrote that she and her other sister called their brother-in-law “de pulser” because, after the arrest or departure of his landlords, he moved in his own furniture.[7] Just like Ellen and her sister Ruth, Werner and Eva Goldschmidt went into hiding with the help of Jo Vis of Amstelveen,[8] but in November 1943 Eva was discovered and sent to Bergen-Belsen. There she was assigned to the group Austauschjuden and exchanged in June 1944, after which she ended up in the British Mandate of Palestine.[9] Werner's hiding place was also discovered. On 21 August 1944, Werner arrived in Westerbork[10] and on 4 September 1944 he was deported to Theresienstadt. At the end of September he was sent to Bergen-Belsen where he died on 5 February 1945.[11] Just before that, at the end of January 1945, he had received, an aid package from the Red Cross, just like the grandmother of Hanneli Goslar.[12]
In an episode of the British TV program Who Do You Think You Are, English actor Matt Lucas delved into the past of his grandmother Margot Hillel. This is how he discovered relatives of his grandmother she never told him about, some of whom were murdered in the concentration camps, including her cousin Werner Goldschmidt.[13]
Source peronsal data [2] Addresses: Merwedeplein 37 II (20 March 1942); Noorder Amstellaan 125hs (16 December 1942); Rijnstraat 108 III (April 1943).[2]
Footnotes
- ^ Anne refers to him as: a tall man, about thirty-five years old, with glasses and a very unpleasant face. Anne Frank, Tales and Events from the Secret Annex, "Lodgers or Tenants", 15 October 1943, in: The Collected Works, transl. from the Dutch by Susan Massotty, London [etc.]: Bloomsbury Continuum, 2019. See also: Version A, 14 & 22 August 1942, 21 September 1942, 2nd, 25 September 1942, 2nd, and 5 November 1942.
- a, b, c, d, e Stadsarchief Amsterdam, Dienst Bevolkingsregister, Archiefkaarten (toegangsnummer 30238): Archiefkaart W. Goldschmidt.
- ^ SAA, Dienst Bevolkingsregister, Archiefkaarten (toegangsnummer 30238): Archiefkaarten W.I. Goldschmidt en H.S. Kaufmann.
- ^ Zie noot 1 en Het Joodsche Weekblad, 31 juli 1942.
- ^ Ellen Schwarzschild, Niet lesen Als ’t U blieft. Nicht lesen Bitte. Onuitwisbare herinneringen (1933-1943), Amstelveen: s.n., 1999, p. 64.
- ^ Schwarzschild, Niet lesen Als ’t U blieft, p. 50-53.
- ^ Schwarzschild, Niet lesen Als ’t U blieft, p. 72-73.
- ^ Schwarzschild, Niet lesen Als ’t U blieft, p. 83.
- ^ Joods Amsterdam: Werner Goldschmidt.
- ^ Op weg naar Westerbork wist hij nog een brief uit de trein te gooien. Kamp Westerbork - Digitale collectie: Brief van Werner Goldschmidt aan de familie Deenik vanuit de trein gegooid.
- ^ Joods Amsterdam: Werner Goldschmidt; Joods Monument: Werner Goldschmidt.
- ^ International Tracing Service (ITS), Bad Arolsen, doc. nr. 3396827#1: Brief ‘Commission Mixte de Secours de la Croix-Rouge Internationale aan Deutsches Rotes Kreuz, Generalführer Hartmann, 23 januari 1945, met opgaven van 51 ontvangers.
- ^ British TV cooking contest host discovers his family member lived with Anne Frank, The Times of Israel, 22 juli 2022