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Max Rauner

Max Richard Rauner was involved in filling bottles of liquid pectin for Opekta in the late 1930s.

Person

  • Max Richard Rauner
  • Born on: Nov. 28, 1902
  • Born in: Bad Kreuznach, Duitsland
  • Died in: New York, USA

Max Rauner was a merchant by trade. In Bad Kreuznach, Rauner had been the leader of the Jüdische Jugendverein.[1] On 6 August 1937, he travelled on the S.S. Statendam from Rotterdam.[2] The ship arrived in New York on 14 August 1937, where Rauner visited his business friends Rohmer Gehrig & Co. He moved to Amsterdam in early 1938.[3] In the years 1938-'39, he worked at the Haarlem wine shop Jager-Gerlings filling bottles of Opekta liquid pectin.[4]

Rauner and his wife set sail from Lisbon on 12 June 1941 on the S.S. Serpa Pinto for New York, where they arrived on 23 June 1941.[5] Their parents stayed behind in Europe and were killed during the war years.[6]

On a passenger ship from Rotterdam to New York in 1962 he met Rosa de Winter and talked to her about Otto Frank. Following that meeting, he wrote to Otto and asked him to send a signed copy of Het Achterhuis.[7]

Source personal data.[3] Died May 1967 (exact date unknown).[8] Addresses: Bad Kreuznach; Deurloostraat 109 I, Amsterdam (18 maart 1938);[3] 610 West 110th Street, New York (1957); 610 Cathedral Parkway, NY (1962).[9]

Footnotes

  1. ^ “Bad Kreuznach”, Der Israelit, 6 december 1934.
  2. ^ New York passenger’s lists, 1820 – 1957: Shipping manifest S.S. Statendam, 6 augustus 1937 (via ancestry.com, 18 januari 2018)
  3. a, b, c Stadsarchief Amsterdam (SAA), Dienst Bevolkingsregister, Archiefkaarten (toegangsnummer 30238): Archiefkaart M.R. Rauner.
  4. ^ Anne Frank Stichtring (AFS), Anne Frank Collectie (AFC), Otto Frank Archief (OFA), reg. code OFA_085: Brief van Richard M. Rauner aan Otto Frank, 16 september 1957.
  5. ^ New York passenger’s lists, 1820 – 1957: Shipping manifest S.S. Serpa Pinto, 12 juni 1941 (via ancestry.com, 18 januari 2018).
  6. ^ SAA, Dienst Bevolkingsregister, Archiefkaarten (toegangsnummer 30238): Archiefkaarten L. Rauner (1896) en F. Straus (1872); Joods Monument: Leopold Rauner & Friedrica Rauner-Strauss.
  7. ^ AFS, AFC, reg. code OFA_085: Richard M. Rauner aan Otto Frank, 21 september 1962.
  8. ^ U.S. Social Security Death Index, SSN: 085-18-0145, M. Rauner.
  9. ^ AFS, AFC, reg. code OFA_085: Brieven van Richard M. Rauner aan Otto Frank, 16 september 1957 en 21 september 1962.