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Rosel Wronker - Goldschmidt

Rosel Goldschmidt was a domestic help for the Frank family and lived with them for a while.

Person

  • Rosel Wronker - Goldschmidt
  • Hersfeld, Duitsland Aug. 20, 1900
  • Sobibor July 16, 1943

Rosel Goldschmidt came to the Netherlands from Frielendorf in July 1933. Before and after her stay at Merwedeplein 37, she lived at a number of other addresses.[1] According to her own family registration card, she was registered with the Frank family for almost a year and a half.[2] Her occupation was domestic help.[1] She held that position with the Frank family as well; Edith Frank wrote to a friend in December 1937 that she was once again doing everything in the house on her own since ‘Miss Goldschmidt’ had left in October. In the same letter, Edith wrote about Rosel: ‘Johannesburg wurde abgeschlagen.’ (Johannesburg has been rejected).[3] In April 1937, Rosel applied for and received a certificate of good conduct from the municipality of Amsterdam in connection with her planned emigration to South Africa.[4] However, on 16 September 1937, the South African Department of Home Affairs sent Rosel a rejection notice.[5]

This rejection and the difficulty of finding a new job caused Rosel to break down. Her GP, Margot Riesenfeld, deemed it necessary for her to rest for around four weeks.[6] Although she left Edith Frank’s household, Rosel remained reachable by telephone during this period.[7] Edith sought the help of Hans Goslar, who asked the Vluchtelingencomité (Refugee Committee) to place Rosel in a rest home for a few weeks. Edith Frank, he wrote, could provide further details.[8]

Rosel Goldschmidt married Paul Wronker on 22 July 1942; like her, he had lived with the Frank family. Fritz Pfeffer was a witness at the wedding.[9]

On 20 October 1942, Anne wrote in her diary that Rosel and her husband had been sent on to Poland. Two days later, she wrote that they had been brought back and that Miep had visited them.[10] ‘Back from Poland’ is undoubtedly a mistake on Anne’s part. The fact that Miep visited suggests rather that they had been brought back from Westerbork to Amsterdam.

On 25 May 1943, she went with her husband to Camp Vught, and from there to Westerbork on 2 July 1943.[11] Philip Mechanicus provides a brief account of the arrival of 1,600 people in Westerbork that day.[12] On 13 July 1943, Rosel and Paul were deported to Sobibor, where they were murdered immediately upon arrival on 16 July 1943.[13]

Source personal data[14] Address: Merwedeplein 37 II, Amsterdam (15 April 1936 – 18 October 1937).[2]

Footnotes

  1. a, b SAA, Dienst Bevolkingsregister Archiefkaarten (toegangsnummer 30238): Archiefkaart Rosel Goldschmidt.
  2. a, b SAA, Dienst Bevolkingsregister, Gezinskaarten (toegangsnummer 5422): Gezinskaart R. Goldschmidt.
  3. ^ Familiearchief Anne Frank-Fonds, Bazel, Otto Frank, AFF_OtF_pdoc_16: Edith Frank aan Hedda Eisenstädt, 24 december 1937.
  4. ^ SAA, Secretarie, Algemene Zaken (toegang 5181), inv. nr. 7638: afgegeven verklaringen van goed gedrag en van Nederlanderschap 1937, volgnr. 2335.
  5. ^ Nederlands Instituut voor Ooorlogs-, Holocaust- en genocidestudies NIOD (NIOD), Comité voor Joodsche Vluchtelingen (toegang 181b), inv. nr. 247: beschikking B.7246, geadresseerd aan Rosel Goldschmidt, 16 september 1937.
  6. ^ NIOD, Comité voor Joodsche Vluchtelingen, inv. nr. 247: attest van dr. Margot Riesenfeld, 10 november 1937.
  7. ^ NIOD, Comité voor Joodsche Vluchtelingen, inv. nr. 247: Rosel Goldschmidt aan Gertrud van Tijn, secretaresse van het comité, 16 november 1937.
  8. ^ NIOD, Comité voor Joodsche Vluchtelingen, inv. nr. 247: Hans Goslar aan Gertrud van Tijn, secretaresse van het comité, 10 november 1937.
  9. ^ Stadsarchief Amsterdam (SAA), Burgerlijke Stand (toegang 5009), inv. nr. 6753: huwelijksakten 1942, deel 45, 13f, akte 21.
  10. ^ Anne Frank, Diary Version A, 20 and 22 October 1942, in: The Collected Works, transl. from the Dutch by Susan Massotty, London [etc.]: Bloomsbury Continuum, 2019.
  11. ^ International Tracing Service (ITS), Bad Arolsen, 1.1.12.2: individuele documenten kamp Herzogenbusch, Rosel Sara Wronker - Goldschmidt.
  12. ^ Philp Mechanicus, In depot. Dagboek uit Westerbork van Philip Mechanicus, Amsterdam, Polak & van Gennep, 1964, p. 66.
  13. ^ Arolsen Archives - International Center on Nazi Persecution, Bad Arolsen, Joodsch Raad Cartotheek, DocID: 130403985 (Rosel WRONKER GOLDSCHMIDT).
  14. ^ Joods Monument: Rosel Wronker-Goldschmidt.

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