Ruth Goslar - Klee
Ruth Klee was the mother of Anne's friend Hanneli and a friend of Edith Frank.
Ruth Judith Goslar - Klee married Hans Goslar in Berlin on 3 April 1926. She had two daughters, Hanneli and Gabi.[1]
In 1933 she and her family fled to the Netherlands and ended up living at Merwedeplein 31-1 in early 1934. It was there that the Goslar family became friends with the Frank family.[2] Her daughter Hanneli recalled: They were just like sisters, my mother and Mrs Frank.[3]
On 25 June 1938 her ‘deutschen Staatsangehörigkeit’ was revoked.[4]
On 26 July 1938 she received from the municipality of Amsterdam a statement of good behaviour, which had been applied for in connection with plans to emigrate.[5] The destination was not listed.
In the morning of 26 October 1942 she gave birth to a child that was registered as 'still born'. On 27 October, at eight o'lock in the evening, she passed away.[6] Anne wrote about the loss of the Goslar's baby in her diary on 2 November 1942. She probably did not know then that her friend Hanneli's mother had also died.[7]
Source personal data.[8] Addresses: Merwedeplein 34 I (’34); Zuider Amstellaan 16 II (June ’37) in Amsterdam.[8]
Footnotes
- ^ Stadsarchief Amsterdam (SAA), Dienst Bevolkingsregister, Archiefkaarten (toegangsnummer 30238): Archiefkaart Hans Goslar.
- ^ Anne Frank, Diary Version A, 15 June 1942, 22 August 1942, 3 October 1942 and 2 November 1942 (2nd); Version B, 5 July 1942, in: The Collected Works, transl. from the Dutch by Susan Massotty, London [etc.]: Bloomsbury Continuum, 2019; Willy Lindwer, De laatste zeven maanden: vrouwen in het spoor van Anne Frank. Hilversum: Gooi en Sticht, 1988, p. 25-28.
- ^ Lindwer, De laatste zeven maanden, p. 28.
- ^ Hans Georg Lehmann & Michael Hepp (Einl.), Die Ausbürgerung deutscher Staatsangehöriger 1933 – 45 nach den im Reichsanzeiger veröffentlichten Listen. Band 1. Listen in chronologischer Reihenfolge, München: Saur, 1985, p. 59.
- ^ SAA, Algemene Zaken (toegang 5181), inv. nr. 7641: Register van afgegeven verklaringen van goed gedrag, Nederlanderschap en kostwinnerschap, volgnr. 8589.
- ^ SAA, Burgerlijke Stand (toegang 5009), inv. nr. 6960: Register van overlijdensakten 1942, deel 14, 4v, akte 19 en 6v, akte 31.
- ^ Lindwer, De laatste zeven maanden, p. 39 en 45; AFS, Getuigenverhalen I: transcriptie interview met Hanneli Pick - Goslar, afgenomen op 6 mei 2009 door David de Jongh, p. 68, Interview deel e, tijdcode 08:44:05.
- a, b SAA, Dienst Bevolkingsregister, Archiefkaarten (toegangsnummer 30238): Archiefkaart Ruth Judith Klee.