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Henny van Pels

Henny van Pels was an older sister of Hermann van Pels.

Person

  • Henny van Pels
  • Born on: April 30, 1895
  • Born in: Gehrde, Duitsland
  • Died on: Sept. 17, 1943
  • Died in: Auschwitz

Henny van Pels was one of six children born to Aaron and Lina van Pels and was an older sister of Hermann van Pels. She was not married and was the owner of a tailor's workshop at Möserstrasse 5 in Osnabrück. She was the first of the Van Pels family to levae Osnabrück for Amsterdam, where she worked as a seamstress.[1] In May 1940, her sister Clara moved in with her.[2]

On 2 September 1942, she married Erich Marx, a Jewish resident of Weesp 15 years her junior, in Amsterdam. Witnesses were her brother-in-law Günther Neumann and Auguste van Pels' father Leo Röttgen.[3] Marx was an immigrant who, together with his father, had owned a sausage factory in Weesp since 1938. In the last years of his life he suffered from TB, and he died in Sobibor on 21 May 1943.[4]

Henny eventually became a furrier for the German Wehrmacht.[5] As a result, she belonged to the group of approximately 3,800 Rüstungsjuden. This group received protective "stamps" from 21 September 1942 for working in industries of great importance to the war effort. In the end, all the stamps proved to be worthless.[6] Albeit relatively late, Henny van Pels also perished in Auschwitz.

Source personal data.[7] Addresses: Am Domhof 8, Osnabrück; Okeghemstraat 6, Amsterdam (1935); Minervalaan 49-I (April 1940).[5]

Footnotes

  1. ^ Stadsarchief Amsterdam (SAA), Dienst Bevolkingsregister, Gezinskaarten (toegangsnummer 5422): Gezinskaart H. van Pels (1895).
  2. ^ SAA, Dienst Bevolkingsregister, Archiefkaarten (toegangsnummer 30238): Archiefkaart C. van Pels.
  3. ^ SAA, Burgerlijke Stand, inv. nr. 6764: register van huwelijksakten 1942, deel 56, 2v, nr. 3.
  4. ^ D. van Zomeren, Geschiedenis van de Joodse gemeenschap in Weesp, Weesp: Heureka, 1983, p. 37-38.
  5. a, b SAA, Dienst Bevolkingsregister, Archiefkaarten (toegangsnummer 30238): Archiefkaart H. van Pels (1895).
  6. ^ J. Presser, Ondergang. De vervolging en verdelging van het Nederlandse Jodendom 1940 – 1945, Den Haag: Staatsuitgeverij, 1985, Deel I, p. 290-291, 296.
  7. ^ SAA, Dienst Bevolkingsregister, Archiefkaarten (toegangsnummer 30238): Archiefkaart H. van Pels (1895); SAA, Burgerlijke Stand (toegang 5009), inv. nr. 7396: A-register 85, 76v, nr. 450.