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Margaretha Goldschmidt - Röttgen

Margaretha Goldschmidt-Röttgen was an older sister of Auguste van Pels-Röttgen.

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  • Margaretha Goldschmidt - Röttgen
  • Born on: May 10, 1899
  • Born in: Buer, Duitsland
  • Died on: Aug. 26, 1972
  • Died in: Miami, Verenigde Staten

Margaretha Röttgen, ongedateerd

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Margaretha (Gretha) Goldschmidt-Röttgen was the third daughter of Leo Röttgen and Rosa Röttgen-Rosenau and an older sister of Auguste van Pels-Röttgen. On 4 April 1918 she registered as a resident of Amsterdam, at the address Kalverstraat 103. She identified herself with a German passport. The Aliens Department described her as 'normal', with brown hair, brown eyes and an oval face. She was 1.55 m tall and professed the Israelite religion. On 8 July 1919 she left for Germany again.[1]

She married Max Goldschmidt (16 January 1885) in Elberfeld on 27 September 1922.[2] The couple had a daughter Doris and a son Günter. They settled in Amsterdam in January 1938.[3]

On 27 August 1941 she reported the theft of 105.50 guilders from her home to the Overtoom police station, presumably by a worker called Leijbrand.[4]

She was imprisoned in Camp Westerbork on 6 August 1943, deported on a punishment transport to Auschwitz on 14 September 1943 and returned to Amsterdam in 1945.

In the late 1950s she wrote to Otto Frank that she thought her cousin Peter van Pels deserved more public recognition for the role he played in Anne's life.[5] She also appealed to Otto Frank, on the occasion of the filming of the diary by George Stevens, to correct the unjustly unsympathetic image of Hermann van Pels that was portrayed in it.[6]

Max Goldschmidt died in 1957. Margaretha subsequently married Edwin Schmeitzner.[7]

Source personal data.[8] Addresses: Buer-Recklinghausen; Huyssenallee 2, Essen; Vereinstrasse 14, Wuppertal-Elberfeld (1919-1922); Argonautenstraat 4 II, Amsterdam (6 January 1938); Parnassusweg 23 II (January 1940); Singel 500bv (9 July 1945); Bos en Lommerweg 17 I (13 August 1945); Pelleplain Road, Woodbine, NJ, Verenigde Staten (22 February 1947).[3]

Footnotes

  1. ^ Stadsarchief Amsterdam (SAA), Gemeentepolitie Amsterdam, toegang 5225, inv. nr. 941: Vreemdelingenregister 1922, volgnr. 420. Het opgegeven adres is van de fotograaf Salomon Strauss (1874).
  2. ^ Stadtarchiv Wuppertal, Elberfelder Heiratsregistern, Reg.-Nr. 1553-1922; trouwakte van Max Goldschmidt en Margaretha Röttgen d.d. 27 september 1922.
  3. a, b SAA, DIenst Bevolkingsregister, Archiefkaarten (toegangsnummer 30238): Archiefkaart M. Röttgen.
  4. ^ SAA, Gemeentepolitie Amsterdam (toegang 5225), inv. nr. 6559: rapportenboeken bureau Overtoom, 27 augustus 1941 (mut. 10.15).  
  5. ^ Anne Frank Stichting (AFS), Anne Frank Collectie (AFS), Otto Frank Archief (OFA), reg. code OFA_076: Gretha Goldschmidt aan Otto Frank, 10 augustus 1958.
  6. ^ AFS, AFC, reg. code OFA_076: Greta Goldschmidt aan Otto Frank, 16 mei 1959.
  7. ^ Familiebericht, Aufbau, 1 september 1972.
  8. ^ SAA, Dienst Bevolkingsregister, Archiefkaarten (toegangsnummer 30238): Archiefkaart M. Röttgen; Familiebericht, Aufbau, 1 september 1972.

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Kinderfoto van Auguste van Pels-Röttgen (waarschijnlijk helemaal links), met haar moeder Rosa Röttgen-Rosenau en zussen Else, Trude, Margaretha en Lotte, ongedateerd

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