Israël Frankenhuis, born in Enschede, grease trader and son of Heiman Frankenhuis and Sophia Meijer, married 15 November 1923 in Zutphen Henriette Rozendal, born in Borculo, residing in Zutphen, a daughter of Markus Rozendal and Marianne Frank. 6 December 1923 his wife Henriette was registered in the Peoples Registry of Enschede and they lived at Oldenzaalschestraat 143. There, 25 Februari 1925 their daughter Elisabeth Sophie was born. She survived the Holocaust. Presumbably in the years of 1930 the family moved to Arnhem, Steijnstraat 11, which was also the last known and legal address of the surviving daughter.
11 December 1942 the Frankenhuis family was registered in Camp Westerbork. 19 January 1943 they were moved to barack 69 where they had to stay for ten days, till the day they were deported to Auschwitz, 29 January 1943. From the official certificates of death from the Gelders Archive, it appears that Israël Frankenhuis was killed in Auschwitz 1 Februari 1943 and his wife Henriette Rozendal on 2 February 1943. (formally listed then as the widow of Israël Frankenhuis).
In the family of his parents, Heiman Frankenhuis, (a son of Koopman Meijer Frankenhuis and Henrijetta Joseph Davie) 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.
Israëls brother Ruben and sister Adela were unmarried. Both were killed in Sobibor. His siblings Marcus and Hertog were killed in Sobibor too, together with their families. Only his sister Ziena passed away in her residence Schoonhoven 18 April 1942 and was interred in the Jewish Cemetery there.
Website www.wiewaswie.nl; Regional Archive Zutphen, family registration card of Markus Rozendal; The Gelders Archive, certificates of death from Arnhem of Israël Frankenhuis and Henriette Rozendal, nrs. 302 and 303 dated 24 March 1947; the file cabinet of the Jewish Council, cards of Israël Frankenhuis and Elisabeth Sophie Frankenhuis; website www.akevoth.org/hetstenenarchief, cemetery Schoonhoven and an addition of a visitor of the website.