Biography

About Rosette Polak-Gersons

Rosette Gersons, daughter of Benjamin David Gersons and Betje Manasse, was married to Harmannus Polak on 11 May 1906 in her birthplace Tiel. He was a son of Simon Polak and Bettje van Rhijn. She and Harmannus had two children: Bettje (Bep), who was killed in the Shoah and Benjamin David, who died 14 October 1944 in Vuren (province of Gelderland), in an attempt to reach by swimming the liberated south.

After Rosette and her husband were brought into camp Westerbork in the early days of October 1942, they have been deporte on 9 October to Auschwitz and upon arrival there on 12 October 1942 immediately killed.

Website www.wiewaswie.nl; the archive of the Jewish Council, card of Harmannus Polak and an addition of Jan Ridderbos.

 

This person is commemorated on a memorial in Hoogeveen. More information on this memorial can be found (in Dutch) on the website of the Nationaal Comité 4 en 5 mei.