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Alfred Holländer

Alfred Holländer was a first cousin Edith Frank-Holländer.

Person

Fotograaf: Louis Fabian Bachrach Jr. / The History of Dermatology Society
  • Alfred Holländer
  • Born on: May 20, 1899
  • Born in: Oberhausen, Duitsland
  • Died on: July 15, 1986
  • Died in: Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Duitsland

Alfred Holländer, Spingfield, Massachusetts

Fotograaf: Louis Fabian Bachrach Jr. / The History of Dermatology Society

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Alfred Holländer was a son of Moses Max Holländer, a sibling of Abraham Holländer, Edith's father. Max Holländer was married to Mathilde Berg and had four children with her: Alfred, Irene, Ernst and Richard.[1]

Alfred and Irene were among the guests at te wedding of Otto Frank and Edith Holländer on 8 May 1925.

Alfred Holländer was married three time. His first wife, Hilde, died in childbirth.[2] He then married Ruth Katz, but divorced her in 1938.[3] They both emigrated to the United States.[4] Once there, he married Trude Kahn. She had studied medicine in Bonn, but had moved to San Francisco to complete her studies. She then became a gynaecologist in Springfield, Massachusetts. There she met Alfred, whom she married in 1940.[5] The marriage was childless.

Alfred Holländer was a dermatologisty and lectured at the universities of Harvard, Boston and San Diego.[6] In 1979 both he and his spouse retired and moved to San Diego. Alfred died in 1986 during a vacation in Europe, 87 years old, from a fatal heart attack.[5]

Source personal data.[7]

Footnotes

  1. ^ Familienbuch Euregio: Moses Max Holländer.
  2. ^ According to Dorothy Fraifeld Jenkins, née Kronheim, daughter of Alfred's sister Irene, in a telephone conversation with Teresien da Silva (Anne Frank Stichting), 5 October 2011.
  3. ^ Ernst Friedrich writes: 'Ruth (1908 in Düsseldorf) lived in Bielefeld when Hitler took power and was married to Dr. Alfred Holländer, dermatologist. They divorced in 1938 and came to the US independently. In 1945, Ruth remarried in Brookline, Massachusetts, to Herbert Stern. She died childless on 17 January 1999 in Frankfurt. When she applied for her American passport, she stated her occupation as "commercial artist". Despite her divorce, she still called herself Ruth Hollander'. Ernst Friedrich, Hier en daar in de Venenstraat 1914-2014: De Joodse familie Katz uit Vacha.
  4. ^ He was passenger on passeger lines SS Statendam. See TSS Statendam Passenger List - 20 August 1938.
  5. a, b Retired doctor, 104, a survivor, trailblazer: Trude Hollander survived Holocaust, endured sexism in Depression-era U.S., San Diego Union-Tribune, 3 augustus 2014.
  6. ^ Of the 2,078 dermatologists working in Germany in 1933, 589 were of Jewish descent. Nearly half of them emigrated, with the United States as their main destination. They made a major contribution to the development of dermatology in the US. Well-known names among them were Hermann Pinkus, Rudolf Baer, ​​Walter Lever, Stephan Epstein, Kurt Wiener and Alfred Holländer. Information found in: Das Schicksal jüdischer Dermatologen, Allergo Journal, 2001, Volume 10, Issue 5, p. 256. Review of: S. Eppinger, Das Schicksal der jüdischen Dermatololgen  Deutschlands in der Zeit des Nationalsozialismus, Dissertation, Universität Dresden 2000, Frankfurt am Main: Mabuse-Verlag.
  7. ^ Familienbuch Euregio: Alfred Holländer.