Erich Rosendahl, born in Odenkirchen (Germany), was a son of Max Rosendahl and Julie Stern, the 2nd wife of his father Max. He came to The Netherlands with is parents and sister Hilde and they were registered in the Amsterdam Peoples Registry per 14 November 1938 at the address Onbekendegracht 9 II.
On 6 July 1939 Erich's mother Julie Stern passed away and she was interred in the Jewish Cemetery in Diemen on the 9th of July. His father Max, he self, his sister Hilde and her husband Iwan Illfelder moved then on 29 July 1939 to Zwanenburgwal 34 I. Erich however was housed in February 1940 in the so called Lloyds Hotel at Oostelijke Handelskade 12 in Amsterdam, a reception center for German refugee children but a few months later, in July 1940 he was transferred to Refugee Camp Westerbork.
Erich's father survived the Shoah. He returned to Amsterdam from Theresienstadt. His sister Hilde and his brother-in-law both were killed in Auschwitz and eventually, he lost his life on 20 February 1945 at Extern Kommando Ebensee (near KZ Mauthausen), after he was deported from Westerbork to Theresienstadt on 4 September 1944 and from there to Auschwitz on 29 September 1944 and from there that same year to concentration camp Mauthausen. He was unmarried.
City Archive of Amsterdam, archive cards of Erich Rosendahl and Max Rosendahl and websites www.dokin.nl, akevoth/mokum/burialpermits, and the website of the Memorial Book of the Victims of the Persecution of Jews under the National Socialist Tyranny in Germany 1933-1945.