On 14 September 1942, Emma van Essen-Frankenstein left for Amsterdam, probably under Nazi orders. There, on 5 December 1942, at the age of 80, she took her own life.
After the war, Emma van Essen-Frankenstein was reburied in the Jewish cemetery at the Parallelweg in Veenendaal. The tombstone also …
Abraham Levie van Essen (nickname Bram) was one of the ten children of Levy Nathan van Essen and Betje van Creveld. Together with his brother Simon Levy van Essen, he headed a large wholesale business in colonial goods, based in the Hoofdstraat in Veenendaal. Abraham Levy van Essen married Emma Fran…