Biography

About Ziena Morisco-Frankenhuis

Ziena Frankenhuis, daughter of Heiman Frankenhuis and Sophia Meijer, married 6 September 1911 in Enschede Levie Morisco, a cigar manufacturer from Numansdorp and son of David Morisco and Rebecca Reens. She passed away 18 April 1942 in Schoonhoven and was interred in the Jewish Cemetery in Schoonhoven. (her name appeared in the Civil Registry also as Gesina.  Her nickname Sientje was found too but her official name of birth was Ziena).

In the family of her parents, Heiman Frankenhuis, (a son of Koopman Meijer Frankenhuis and Henrijetta Joseph David) and Sophia Meijer, (a daughter of Ruben Meijer and Ziena Philips), nine children were born. Of those one child died at the age of 6 and another died only five days old. One child survived the Holocaust but the other five children were all killed in the Shoah.

Ziena’s brother Ruben and sister Adela were unmarried. Both were killed in Sobibor. Her brothers Marcus and Hertog werd killed in Sobibor too, together with their families. Only her brother Israël was killed in Auschwitz together with his wife.

Website www.wiewaswie.nl, marriage of Ziena Frankenhuis and Levie Morisco, certificate of death nr. 24 of 20 April 1942 from Schoonhoven; www.aketvoth.org/hetstenenarchief/begraafplaats Schoonhoven and an addition of a visitor of the website.