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Rose Judy De Liema - van Gelder

Rose De Liema - van Gelder stayed in prison barracks 67 at Camp Westerbork with the eight people from the Secret Annex. In Auschwitz-Birkenau, she lived near Edith, Margot and Anne Frank.

Person

Fotograaf onbekend. Fotocollectie Anne Frank Stichting, Amsterdam
  • Rose Judy De Liema - van Gelder
  • Born on: June 9, 1921
  • Born in: Den Haag, Nederland
  • Died on: June 29, 2014
  • Died in: Orange County, California, Verenigde Staten

Roos en Sal de Liema, tijdens hun huwelijk, 20 december 1942

Fotograaf onbekend. Fotocollectie Anne Frank Stichting, Amsterdam

Status onduidelijk

Rose (Roosje) van Gelder was born on 9 June 1921 in The Hague as the second daughter to the Jewish Mozes van Gelder (1887–1943) and Judith Cohen (1883–1943). She grew up with her elder sister Elisabeth (1920-1943), her younger sister Rozetta (1924-1943) and her younger  brother Hartog (1926-1944).[1] The family lived on Oranjeplein 2 in The Hague.[2]

On 20 December 1942, Rose married Sally (Sal) Bernard de Liema (1914-2004), who would later become close with Otto Frank in Auschwitz-I.[3] With her husband, she took a room in the house of acquaintances.[4]

On 4 January 1943, Rose's parents, sisters and younger brother were picked up at home and deported to Camp Westerbork.[5]

Rose and here husband Sal were picked up on 10 April 1943 and detained. With the help of friends, they managed to be released. The couple went into hiding on 23 April 1943. They stayed at different addresses and lived in hiding in the home of Mem Diependaal from April to 5 August 1944, when they were discovered and arrested.

Concentration camps

Via the Arnhem prison, Rose and her husband arrived in Camp Westerbork on 11 August 1944. Just like the eight people from the Secret Annex, they stayed in prison barracks 67 and were put to work in the battery dismantling centre.[6] In an interview with the Anne Frank Stichting, Rose reminisced about singing songs in the prison barracks with the Van Pels family and Frank family.[7]

On 3 September 1944, Rose and her husband were deported to Auschwitz, together with the eight people from the Secret Annex and 1009 others.[8] After the selections, Rose kept close to Edith, Margot and Anne Frank in Auschwitz-Birkenau.[9] She remembered that Anne had contracted a skin disease and had been sent to the socalled scabies barracks. According to Rose, Margot pretended to suffer from the same disease in order to keep Anne company.[10]

On 26 oktober 1944, about one hundred women were selected to work in Libau and Kratzau.[11] Rose was one of them and ended up in Libau. There she had to manufacture skid chains for military vehicles. She was liberated from Libau on 7 May 1945. [10]

After liberation

On 30 June 1945, Rose was reunited with her husband Sal, who had survived Auschwitz, just like Otto Frank. On 2 September 1950, the couple emigrated to the United States with their two children.[12] There, Roosje changed her name to Rose and added Judy as as her second name.[13]

Source personal data.[14]

Footnotes

  1. ^ Haags Gemeentearchief (HGA), Haags Bevolkingsregister. Gezinskaarten (toegang 0345-01-555), inv. nr. 555.
  2. ^ Rose De Liema-van Gelder, So you will remember. A mother writes to her children, eigen beheer, 1982, p. 8.
  3. ^ De Liema-van Gelder, So you will remember, p. 28-29.
  4. ^ De Liema-van Gelder, So you will remember, p. 18-19.
  5. ^ Haar ouders en zus en zusje werden vermoord in concentratie- en vernietigingskamp Auschwitz in februari 1944. Haar broertje Hartog stierf op 30 juni 1944 in midden-Europa. Zie onder meer: Joods Monument: Mozes van Gelder; Hartog van Gelder; Arolsen Archives - International Center on Nazi Persecution, Bad Arolsen, Joodsche Raad Kaart Mozes van Gelder, Document ID: 130291755.
  6. ^ Arolsen Archives, Joodsche Raad Kaart Roosje De Liema - van Gelder, Document ID 130333840; De Liema-van Gelder, So you will remember, p. 27.
  7. ^ Anne Frank Stichting (AFS), Getuigenarchief, interview Rose De Liema – van Gelder, 11 juni 2009.
  8. ^ Op de transportlijst van het transport op 3 september 1944 staan in het totaal 1019 mensen. Van het transport werden 347 mensen meteen bij aankomst in de gaskamer vermoord. Zie Bas von Benda Beckmann, Na het Achterhuis. Anne Frank en de andere onderduikers in de kampen, Amsterdam: Querido, 2020, p. 154; Arolsen Archies, Joodsche Raad Kaart Roosje De Liema - van Gelder.
  9. ^ Arolsen Archives, Joodsche Raad Kaart Roosje De Liema - van Gelder; De Liema-van Gelder, So you will remember, p. 27-28.
  10. a, b De Liema-van Gelder, So you will remember, p. 28.
  11. ^ Von Benda Beckmann, Na het Achterhuis, p.  208.
  12. ^ De Liema-van Gelder, So you will remember, p. 28, 33.
  13. ^ United States Holocaust Memorial Museum (USHMM), Interview met Rose Judy de Liema, 10 oktober 1993, Accession Number: 2000.91.68 | RG Number: RG-50.493.0068.
  14. ^ HGA, Haags Bevolkingsregister, Gezinskaarten (toegang 0354-01.555), inv. nr. 555: Gezinskaart Mozes van Gelder; Find a Grave: Rose Judy de Liema.