Gertrude Feuchtwanger - Röttgen
Trude was an older sister of Auguste van Pels.
Person
Gertrude (Trude) Feuchtwanger-Röttgen was the second daughter of Leo Röttgen and Rosa Röttgen-Rosenau and an older sister of Auguste van Pels. She emigrated to the US, where she acquired citizenship and worked as a couturier and fashion designer. For Auguste, she filed an Entschädigungsantrag.[1] Her husband Berthold Feuchtwanger died in Peru in 1944.[2] Trude was a sister-in-law of the author Lion Feuchtwanger (1884-1958), the author of Jud Süss.[3] Lion wrote a recommendation for publication of Anne Frank's diary to a German publisher (Rowohlt or Huebsch) in 1947.[4]
Source: personal data.[1] Addresses: Huyssenallee 2, Essen (1904); Vereinstrasse 14, Wuppertal-Elberfeld (1914); 875 West End Avenue, New York, United States.[1]
Footnotes
- a, b, c Niedersächsisches Landesarchiv (NLA), Hannover, Nds 110W, Acc. 105/93 Nr. 959: Aanvraagformulier voor schadevergoeding inzake Auguste van Pels-Röttgen, 11 april 1957.
- ^ Geni: Berthold Feuchtwanger.
- ^ Wikipedia: Lion Feuchtwanger.
- ^ Anne Frank Stichting, Anne Frank Collecties, Otto Frank Archief, reg. code OFA_154: Aanbeveling Lon Feuchtwanger, geadresseerd aan Rowohlt, Hamburg (concept of doorslag). Dit document bevindt zich tussen correspondentie met personen en bedrijven in de VS.
Digital files (1)
Kinderfoto van Auguste van Pels-Röttgen (waarschijnlijk helemaal links), met haar moeder Rosa Röttgen-Rosenau en zussen Else, Trude, Margaretha en Lotte, ongedateerd
Copyright: Rechthebbende(n) onvindbaar
Photographer: undefined