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Trude Leeser

Trude Leeser was a cousin of Peter van Pels.

Person

Vervaardiger onbekend. Fotocollectie Anne Frank Stichting, Amsterdam
  • Trude Lore Leeser
  • Born on: Dec. 25, 1925
  • Born in: Elberfeld, Duitsland

Leerlingen van de Israelitische Elementarschule, Osnabrück, 1936. Achterste rij, derde van rechts staat Trude Leeser. Helemaal rechts, zelfde rij staat Peter van Pels.

Vervaardiger onbekend. Fotocollectie Anne Frank Stichting, Amsterdam

Status onduidelijk

Trude Leeser was a daughter of Clara van Pels and a niece of Hermann van Pels. Her parents Clara van Pels and Herbert Leeser lived in Elberfeld at the time of her birth. Their marriage ended in 1933. Trude and her mother moved to Osnabrück,[1] where many members of the Van Pels family lived. In Osnabrück she attended the Israelite Elementary School. A photo from 1934 shows her in the class of teacher Abraham Trepp. A somewhat later photo shows her with Trepp and a group of other children, including her cousin Peter van Pels, outdoors.[2]

In September 1938 they left Osnabrück for Bloemendaal, and in May 1940 they moved to Amsterdam, where Trude and her mother lived with her grandfather and aunt Henny.[3]Her mother remarried in Amsterdam and was killed with her husband in Sobibor.[4] Trude survived several (possibly nine) camps.[5] She went to Brazil after the liberation. She got married there and lived as Mrs Heymann – Leeser in Sao Paolo.[6]

Source personal data.[5] Addresses: Osnabrück; Merellaan 9, Bloemendaal (Sept. 1938); Minervalaan 49-I, Amsterdam (May 1940); Schubertstraat 46hs (Sept. 1941).[1]

Footnotes

  1. a, b Stadsarchief Amsterdam (SAA), Dienst Bevolkingsregister, Archiefkaarten (toegangsnummer 30238): Archiefkaart C. van Pels (1900).
  2. ^ Peter Junk & Martina Sellmeyer, Stationen auf dem Weg nach Auschwitz. Entrechting, Vertreibung, Vernichtung. Juden in Osnabrück. Bramsche: Rasch Verlag, 1988, p. 178.
  3. ^ SAA, Dienst Bevolkingsregister, Woningkaarten (toegangsnummer 5445), inv. nr. 233: Woningkaart Minervalaan 49.
  4. ^ SAA, Dienst Bevolkingsregister, Archiefkaarten (toegangsnummer 30238): Archiefkaarten C. van Pels en G. Neumann (1900).
  5. a, b Junk & Sellmeyer, Stationen auf dem Weg nach Auschwitz, p. 288.
  6. ^ Anne Frank Stichting (AFS), Getuigenarchief, T. Heymann – Leeser: Brief Dineke Stam (AFS) aan T. Heymann - Leeser, 21 augustus 1996.