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Ilse Windesheim

Ilse Windesheim lived with the Frank family for a few months as a servant.

Person

  • Ilse Windesheim
  • Born on: Oct. 30, 1916
  • Born in: Schwerin, Duitsland

Ilse Windesheim was a servant and lived with the Frank family for a few months in 1934. After coming to the Netherlands from Germany, she first lived for a few weeks with her uncle and aunt Nathan Bierman and Paula Bierman-Windesheim on Korte Meerhuizenstraat in Amsterdam. On 30 June 1934 her registration was transferred to the address of the Frank family at Merwedeplein 37-II. A few months later she moved back to Eberswerdewalde.[1]

She gave birth to her son Peter in the Israelite Hospital in Frankfurt am Main on 18 October 1936.[2] From 29 October 1936 to 18 November 1937, she lived in Neu-Isenheim in 'Isenburg', a house for unmarried mothers. She gave up her son for adoption and went to work in an old people's home in Würzburg. She later emigrated to Argentina and ended up in Uruguay. She got married there and then moved with her husband to Israel.[2]

Source personal data.[3] Addresses: Eberswerdewalde (Germany); Korte Meerhuizenstraat 5-I, Amsterdam (May 1934); Merwedeplein 37-II, Amsterdam (30 June 1934); Eberswerdewalde (25 September 1934).[4]

Footnotes

  1. ^ Stadsarchief Amsterdam (SAA), Dienst Bevolkingsregister, Woningkaarten (toegangsnummer 5445), inv. nr. 228: Woningkaart Korte Meerhuizenstraat 5-I; Gezinskaarten (toegangsnummer 5422): Gezinskaart N. Bierman (1879).
  2. a, b Zie https://gedenkbuch.neu-isenburg.de/, lemma Peter Windesheim (geraadpleegd 25 juli 2019).
  3. ^ SAA, Dienst Bevolkingsregister, Gezinskaarten (toegang 5422): Gezinskaart I. Windesheim.
  4. ^ Zie noot 1. Verschillende documenten noemen ‘Eberswerdewalda’, hoewel die plaatsnaam niet lijkt te bestaan.