Biography

About Margaretha Dresden-van der Bokke

Margaretha van der Bokke, a daughter of Sander van der Bokke and Sientje Bronkhorst, married in Amsterdam on 8 January 1919 to Gabriel Dresden, a son of Meijer Dresden and Roosje Blog. The couple had two children: Rosette and Sientje.
She lived since August 1923 in Antwerp, with her husband and two daughters, where their last address was Boomgaardstraat 201.
Margaretha van der Bokke was deported from Mechelen to Auschwitz, together with her two daughters, with convoy 6 as nr. 79. This convoy departed from Mechelen 27 August 1942 and arrived in Auschwitz 29 August 1942, where Margaretha might have been killed immediately upon arrival.
City Archive of Amsterdam, family registration card of Gabriel Dresden, website www.wiewaswie.nl and Memorial of the Belgian Jews.