Gertrud Munnikendam-Roth

Nitschareuth, – Amsterdam,

Occupation: beauty specialist

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Salomon Munnikendam and his family

In addition, a Jokos file (number 1710) on this family is at the Amsterdam Municipal Archive. Access is subject to authorization from the Stichting Joods Maatschappelijk Werk.The Jokos file reveals that a claim was lodged for compensation for valuables surrendered to the Lippmann-Rosenthal looting b…

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1. From my mothers life (1906-1995). GERMANY

My mother was Gertud Roth, but she always was called Trude. She was born on 5 January 1905 in Nitschareuth in Thüringen as daughter oft he Jewish couple Meyer Roth and Martha Rosenfeld. Anti-semtism was already widespread in Germany – dark causes of economic crises were attributed to an alleged cult…

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2. From my mothers life (1906-1995). HOLLAND

After Hitler’s seizure of power in 1933, my mother decided to flee Germany and came to Amsterdam. She said, knowing the Germans, that she knew what was hanging over us: „die bringen uns alle um“ (they will kill us all), but then met with disbelief. She found shelter with the Röttgen family in the Ru…

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From my mothers life (1906-1995) 3. WARTIME

My parents then decided immediately to flee, together with grandma Spiero. They had bought false papers for 1000 guilders, by which they would like to go Switzerland. The day before depart the supplier came down to collect the documents for a correction. We never saw the papers nor the man again. Be…

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From my mothers life (1906-1995) 4. DEPORTATION

I have only few direct memories of my stay in Westerbork and Theresienstadt. Most of it has been completely erased, but certain impressions have remained, plus my mother’s stories. From Westerbork, I only remember the horrible dirty red cabbage that we apparently often had to eat. I has given me a l…

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From my mothers life (1906-1995) 5. LIBERATION

My memory actually starts to run with the liberation by the Russian Red Army. Tanks and soldiers with a balalaika. Candies were thrown out of the tanks and everyone threw themselves on them. I was not allowed to touch them, and certainly not eat them. Typhus reigned, a fever from which many people s…

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After the war.

On 23 June 1945, Juliette van West-Barmes' sister, Jeanne Gompers wrote from Sweden that Trude and Rubi just one week ago, so mid June 1945 had returned in Amsterdam. At first the had to live in then with the Winter family at Haarlemmermeerstraat 112, before they were offered an own house in the The…

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Fom my mother's life (1906-1995) 6. RETURN

I also have only a few images of the retun. Because Typhyus had erupted and the railway had been largely destroyed, we were unable to leave immediately. We were finally taken to hunting lodge in army trucks by the French Red Cross. The Sudeten German name was Falckenau. I remember the dorm with spot…

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The address of Gertrud Munnikendam-Roth

Haarlemmermeerstraat 90 II, Amsterdam Visit location page

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