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Bora Delden

Bora Delden was the sister of Stella Delden, the daughter-in-law of Mrs Stoppelman, the landlady of Jan and Miep Gies.

Person

  • Debora Delden
  • Born on: Nov. 30, 1923
  • Born in: Amsterdam, Nederland
  • Died on: June 23, 1945
  • Died in: Marseille, Frankrijk

Debora (Bora) Delden was the sister of Stella Stoppelman-Delden,[1] the daughter-in-law of Mrs. Stoppelman (landlady of Jan and Miep Gies). She was a costume seamstress.[2] Together with her sister and brother-in-law Stoppelman, she went into hiding in Laren. According to her brother-in-law, during a conflict between the person who took them into hiding and her son, she sided with the mother.[3] 

They were arrested on 12 April 1944.[3] In Westerbork she also found her brother and younger sister. The family went together on a transport.[4] Otto Frank noted "Borah Delden" in his notebook on 12 March 1945.[5] Debora Delden died on board the Monowai and was buried in Marseille.[6]  She therefore made the same return journey — until Marseille — as Otto Frank.[7]

Source personal data.[2] Addresses: Waterlooplein 150-152, Amsterdam; Rijnstraat 209 II (’41).[2]

Footnotes

  1. ^ Stadsarchief Amsterdam (SAA), Dienst Bevolkingsregister: Archiefkaarten (toegangsnummer 30238): Archiefkaart S. Delden (’88). Is referred to by Anne as: S's sister. Anne Frank, Diary Version A, 17 April 1944, in: The Collected Works, transl. from the Dutch by Susan Massotty, London: Bloomsbury Continuum, 2019.
  2. a, b, c SAA, Dienst Bevolkingsregister: Archiefkaarten (toegangsnummer 30238): Archiefkaart D. Delden.
  3. a, b USC Shoa Foundation - The Institute for Visual History and Education: Interview Meier Stoppelman, nr. 3780, tijdcode 01.13.00. Geraadpleegd in de Mediatheek van het Joods Historisch Museum.
  4. ^  USC Shoa Foundation, M. Stoppelman, 3780, 01.19.00.
  5. ^ Anne Frank Stichting (AFS), Anne Frank Collectie (AFC), Otto Frank Archief, reg. code OFA_040: Notitieboekje Otto Frank.
  6. ^ AFS, Getuigenarchief, Stoppelman: M. Stoppelman aan Hans Westra, 25 augustus 1999.
  7. ^ AFS, AFC, reg. code A_OFrank_I_001: 18 lijsten opgemaakt door Centraal Registratie Bureau voor Joden met namen van Joodse overlevenden, 1945, lijst no. 3, lijst van Joden, via Odessa in Marseille aangekomen.