Max Jacques Roeper studied medicine in Amsterdam, where he sat for his medical finals on 17 March 1926. He specialized to become a surgeon. For many years, he worked as an assistant at the surgeon's clinic of the General Provincial, Municipal and University Hospital of Groningen, where he lived at 110 Heereweg. In 1935, he left for Heerenveen, where he ran an extensive practice in gynaecological surgery. In the years 1940-1942, he worked in Groningen and returned to live at 110 Heereweg.
Max Jacques Roeper took part in the physicians' resistance movement. He was recognized by an NSB patient and reported. He was arrested on 10 August 1943 and held at the prison in Groningen. After his arrest, Roeper was taken to Vught detention centre and from there deported to Auschwitz, where he died after contracting typhus. His wife survived the war.
Various documents remain from Max Jacques Roeper: a Class A driver's license and several letters that he wrote to his family from the prison in Groningen, the train from Groningen to Vught, Vught concentration camp and a postcard from Birkenau. There is also a handwritten letter from another person to Max Jacques Roeper's wife dated 16 November 1943 and reporting that her husband was deported to Auschwitz.
NIOD, Erelijst Verzet en Koopvaardij, database made by J.W. de Leeuw J.H. Coppenhagen, Anafiem Gedoe‘iem. Overleden joodse artsen uit Nederland 1940-1945 (Rotterdam 2000) 132
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