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Suzy Kitron-Stoll

Suzy Stoll was an acquaintance of the Frank family from the Rivierenbuurt in Amsterdam.

Person

  • Susanne Erika Kitron - Stoll
  • Breslau, Duitsland Nov. 23, 1922
  • Kinneret, Israël June 2024

​Susanne (Suzy) Erika Stoll was the daughter of Fritz Stoll (1896-1982) and Ruth Stoll-Krimmer (1899-unknown)[1]. She had a younger brother, Arnold Peter, born on 5 May 1925. The family was Jewish and lived in Breslau, Germany (now: Wrocław, Poland). Suzy's parents arrived in Amsterdam in May 1934 via Antwerp.[2] According to Suzy's archive card from the City Archives in Amsterdam, she had been registered at this address since 19 January 1934, before her parents got registered.[1] She herself recalled during an interview in 2006 that she and her brother stayed with their grandparents in Breslau and came to the Netherlands after their parents.[3] Fritz Stoll became a proxy holder at the Noord Europeesche Erts en Pyriet Maatschappij N.V., located at Lairessestraat 20. During the beginning of the German occupation, he worked in the same role at the Ore and Metals Company "Oxyde" N.V.[4]

Like the Frank family, the Stolls lived on Merwedeplein. Suzy attended the Municipal Lyceum for Girls, as did Margot Frank later on. After graduating in 1940, Suzy was able to study Ancient Languages in Amsterdam ​​for another year, before this was made impossible for Jews.[3]

Suzy's Jewish Council card shows that she received a temporary exemption from deportation (a Sperre) in July of 1942.[5] Based on her age and German origins, she, like Margot Frank, would have been amongst the first to receive a call-up this month, indicating that she got the exemption after an initial call-up. The reason for this exemption was probably a job at the Jewish Council. In August 1942 Suzy went into hiding in Utrecht. Her parents found a hiding place in The Hague, and later she went into hiding with them in Rotterdam.[6]

After the Frank family went into hiding in July 1942, Amalie Stoll-Krolik and Hedwig Krolik, among others, lived in their house at Merwedeplein 37-II from December 1942 onwards.[7] Amalie was Suzy's father's mother, and therefore her grandmother. Hedwig was Amalie's sister. The fact that the two sisters came to live in the house may have been arranged by Martin Meijer Gluskinos, the husband of Amalie's daughter Ruth Gluskinos-Stoll. Martin held a position in the Jewish Council and appears to have been involved in placing Jewish evacuees in the former home of the Frank family.[8] Amalie and Hedwig did not survive the Holocaust; they were murdered in Sobibór and the Auschwitz area respectively in 1943.[9] Martin died in Dachau in 1944.[10]

Brother Arnold had been living in England since 1938 for health reasons.[3] He voluntarily enlisted in British military service in October 1944. Afterward, he went to study at a British university. He obtained citizenship and settled in Birmingham. Due to two trips to Czechoslovakia, one for a student conference held there, and one to Hungary and Germany, the Internal Security Service filed a report on him when he visited his parents in Amsterdam in September 1950.[4] There is a photograph of Suzy's father and brother in Amsterdam from 1946.[11]

On 19 June 1946, Suzy married Morduch Kostynski, also known as Amiram (Ami) Mordechai Kitron, born on 10 September 1914 in Pinsk, Poland (now: Pinsk, Belarus). They emigrated to Palestine shortly afterward.[12] In 2006, she remembered the Frank family in a witness interview. She described Margot Frank as quiet, reliable, and a star student. About Anne, she said:

"Anne was definitely the one who set the tone. She was very lively and bright and fun and came across as funny, so that was all very nice. But on the other hand, she wasn't terribly obedient either."[3]

Source personal data.[13] Addresses: Breslau; Koninginneweg 140bhs, Amsterdam (January 1934); Merwedeplein 7-III (June 1934); Merwedeplein 45-III (September 1945), Nieuwe Prinsengracht 29bhs (November 1945); Palestine (September 1946).[1]

Footnotes

  1. a, b, c Stadsarchief Amsterdam (SAA), Dienst Bevolkingsregister, Archiefkaarten (toegangsnummer 30238): Archiefkaart Susanne Erika Stoll
  2. ^ SAA, Dienst Bevolkingsregister, Archiefkaarten (toegangsnummer 30238): Archiefkaart Fritz Stoll; Archiefkaart Ruth Kruimmer.
  3. a, b, c, d Anne Frank Stichting, Getuigenarchief, Kitron-Stoll, Suzy, interview door Teresien da Silva en Erika Prins, 19 oktober 2006.
  4. a, b Stichting Argus, OD. No. 1739 B, Verdachte Firma's en bedrijven, Ertsen en metaalwaren: No. 3425-'50: Berteft; A.P. Stoll.
  5. ^ Arolsen Archives – International Center on Nazi Persecution, Bad Arolsen, Joodsche Raad Cartotheek: DocID: 130381597 (Fritz STOLL), DocID: 130381598 (Ruth STOLL), en DocID: 130381599 (Susanne STOLL)
  6. ^ Yad Vashem, Testimony of Susanne Kitron-Stoll, file nr. 12951, item id. 6738676, 23 October 2007 and 30 October 2007.
  7. ^ SAA, Woningkaarten, Amsterdam Merwedeplein 37-2 (archiefnummer 5445, inventarisnummer 230A).
  8. ^ Heinz Hesdörffer, Bekannte traf man viele...: Aufzeichnungen eines Deutschen Juden aus dem Winter 1945/46, Zürich: Chronos, 1998, p. 39-40.
  9. ^ SAA, Dienst Bevolkingsregister, Archiefkaarten (toegangsnummer 30238): Amalie Krolik en Hedwig Krolik.
  10. ^ Arolsen Archives, List of names of Jewish victims of the Nazi regime in the Netherlands 1941 - 1945, DocID: 5148973.
  11. ^ Joods Museum, objectnummer F004683: Foto van Fritz Stoll en zijn zoon Peter Stoll op een balkon in Amsterdam, 1946.
  12. ^ SAA, Dienst Bevolkingsregister, Archiefkaarten (toegangsnummer 30238): Archiefkaart Morduch Kostynski; Archiefkaart Amiram Mordechai Kitron.
  13. ^ SAA, Dienst Bevolkingsregister, Archiefkaarten (toegangsnummer 30238): Archiefkaart Susanne Erika Stoll; Ofer Aderet, ‘"My neighbour, Anne Frank, was cute and cheeky": Suzy Kytron, Dutch resistance fighter, dies at 101', Haaretz, 15 augustus 2024.

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