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Clara Ehbrecht

Clara Ehbrecht was on the same transport as the Frank family from Westerbork to Auschwitz. After the liberation, she made the repatriation trip via Odessa to the Netherlands, just like Otto Frank.

Person

  • Clara Wilhelmina Elisabeth Hendrika Ehbrecht
  • Born on: July 6, 1910
  • Born in: Amsterdam, Nederland

Clara Ehbrecht was a camp mate of the Frank family. She was a half sister of Gerdina Selma Gendering.[1] Her profession was nurse, with the qualifications 'the white cross' (basic nurse), 'little stork' (maternity nurse) and 'the black cross' (psychiatric nurse). Under this last qualification, she worked in the 'Apeldoornsche Bos' before 1935.[2]

Between 1935 and 1953 she lived at many different addresses in Amsterdam, including the address of the Central Israeli Hospital, the Jewish Old People's Home, the Portuguese-Israeli Hospital and the Jewish Invalid Home.[3]

On 21 August 1944, she was arrested by SD detective Maarten Spaans from The Hague. As a member of the Documentation Department of the The Hague police, Spaans was a notorious 'hunter for Jews'.[4] He delivered her to the Linnaeusstraat office in Amsterdam. In anticipation of being transported to The Hague, an officer brought her to the Amsterdam Headquarters.[5] She was locked up there.[6] 

She was part of the transport from Westerbork to Auschwitz on 3 September 1944.[7] Despite the fact that her father was not Jewish, she had no protected status and belonged to the common Häftlinge. According to her, she was in the same carriage as the Frank family and stayed in the same barrack in Auschwitz-Birkenau with Edith, Margot and Anne Frank. After the liberation, she made the repatriation trip via Odessa to the Netherlands, just like Otto Frank.[8]

In 1955 she married the Polish Holocaust survivor Abram Bergerfraint.[3] After Otto Frank's death, she signed the book of condolence at the Anne Frank House in 1980, briefly mentioning her connection with the Frank family.[8]

Source personal data.[9] Addresses: Amsterdam; Apeldoorn; Jacob Obrechtstraat 92, Amsterdam (CIZ, 1935 – ‘39); Nieuwe Kerkstraat 135, Amsterdam (Joodse Oudelieden Gesticht - Jewish Old People's Home), 1939 – ’40); Plantage Franschelaan 8, Amsterdam (PIZ, 1944); Weesperplein 1, Amsterdam (JI, 1946 – ’53).[10]

Footnotes

  1. ^ Stadsarchief Amsterdam (SAA), Dienst Bevolkingsregister, Archiefkaarten (toegansnummer 30238): Archiefkaarten C.W.E.H. Ehbrecht en G.S. Gendering, beiden dochters van Leentje Gendering.
  2. ^ Arolsen Archives - International Center on Nazi Persecution, Bad Arolsen: Joodse-Raadkaart C.W.E.H. Ebrecht, Document ID 130283081.
  3. a, b SAA, DIenst Bevolkingsregister, Archiefkaarten (toegangsnummer 30238): Archiefkaart C.W.E.H. Ehbrecht.
  4. ^ L. de Jong, Het Koninkrijk der Nederlanden in de Tweede Wereldoorlog VI. Juli ’42 – Mei ’43, Den Haag: Martinus Nijhoff, 1975, p. 328. Voor Spaans, zie verder: Ad van Liemp & Jan H. Kompagnie (red.), Jodenjacht: de onthutsende rol van de Nederlandse politiek in de Tweede Wereldoorlog, Amsterdam: Balans, 2011.
  5. ^ SAA, Gemeentepolitie Amsterdam (toegangsnummer 5225), inv. nr. 6283: Rapporten bureau Linnaeusstraat, 21 augustus 1944, mut. 16.10 uur.
  6. ^ SAA, Gemeentepolitie Amsterdam, inv. nr. 7202: fouilleringsregister 21 augustus 1944, mut. 17.45 uur.
  7. ^ Nederlandse Rode Kruis, Collectie Vervolging (NRK 2050), inv. nr. 675: Transportsamenstelling Westerbork-Auschwitz, 3 september 1944.
  8. a, b Anne Frank Stichting, Anne Frank Collectie, Otto Frank Archief, reg. code OFA_066: Condoleanceregister voor Otto Frank, 1980.
  9. ^ SAA, Burgerlijke Stand (toegangsnummer 5009), inv. nr. 7632: Register van geboorteakten, deel 13, 13v, akte 7353.
  10. ^ SAA, Dienst Bevolkingsregister, Persoonskaarten (toegangsnummer 30408): Persoonskaart C.W.E.H. Ebrecht.