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Rosel Wronker - Goldschmidt

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

Person

  • Rosel Wronker - Goldschmidt
  • Born on: Aug. 20, 1900
  • Born in: Hersfeld, Duitsland
  • Died on: July 16, 1943
  • Died in: Sobibor

Rosel Goldschmidt married Paul Wronker on 22 July 1942. Fritz Pfeffer was a witness at the wedding.[1] Paul Wronker had lived with the Frank family. Rosel came to the Netherlands in July 1933 from Frielendorf. Before and after her stay with the Franks, she lived at many addresses.[2]  According to her own family card, she was registered with the Frank family for almost eighteen months.[3]

Rosel was in domestic service.[2] At one point she worked as a servant for the Frank family; Edith Frank wrote to a friend in December 1937 saying that she has to do everything herself again since "Frl. Goldschmidt" left in October.[4]

In the same letter Edith wrote about Rosel: "Johannesburg wurde abgeschlagen." In April 1937 Rosel had requested and received a statement of good behaviour from the municipality of Amsterdam with regard to plans to emigrate to South Africa.[5]  In October 1937 she did the same again for South America, with the same result.[6]  However, she remained in the Netherlands, so presumably this endeavour also hit a snag.   

Anne wrote in her diary on 20 October 1942 that Rosel and her husband were sent to Poland. Two days later she wrote that they had been called back and that Miep had gone to visit them.[7] "Rosel and Wronker have been brought back" is undoubtedly an error of Anne's. The fact that Miep paid a visit suggests that they had been sent back to Amsterdam from Westerbork.

On 25 May 1943 she and her husband went to Camp Vught, and from there to Westerbork on 2 July 1943.[8]  Philip Mechanicus makes a short entry of the arrival of sixteen hundred people on that day at Westerbork Philip Mechanicus.[9] 

Source personal data.[2] Addresses: Merwedeplein 37 II, Amsterdam (15 April 1936 – 18 October 1937).[3]

Footnotes

  1. ^ Stadsarchief Amsterdam (SAA), Burgerlijke Stand (toegang 5009), inv. nr. 6753: huwelijksakten 1942, deel 45, 13f, akte 21.
  2. a, b, c SAA, Dienst Bevolkingsregister Archiefkaarten (toegangsnummer 30238): Archiefkaart R. Goldschmidt.
  3. a, b SAA, Dienst Bevolkingsregister, Gezinskaarten (toegangsnummer 5422): Gezinskaart R. Goldschmidt.
  4. ^ Familiearchief Anne Frank-Fonds, Bazel, Otto Frank, AFF_OtF_pdoc_16: Edith Frank aan Hedda Eisenstädt, 24 december 1937.  
  5. ^ SAA, Secretarie, Algemene Zaken (toegang 5181), inv. nr. 7638: afgegeven verklaringen van goed gedrag en van Nederlanderschap 1937, volgnr. 2335.
  6. ^ SAA, Algemene Zaken, inv. nr. 7639: afgegeven verklaringen van goed gedrag en van Nederlanderschap 1937, volgnr. 12765.
  7. ^ 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.
  8. ^ International Tracing Service (ITS), Bad Arolsen, 1.1.12.2: individuele documenten kamp Herogenbusch, Rosel Sara Wronker - Goldschmidt,  https://collections.arolsen-archives.org/en/search/people/426153/?p=1&s=wronker&s_lastName=asc (geraadpleegd 23 juli 2019).
  9. ^ Philp Mechanicus, In depot. Dagboek uit Westerbork van Philip Mechanicus, Amsterdam, Polak & van Gennep, 1964, p. 66.