Jankel Chasler from Odessa was a son of Kalman Chasler and Enna Lebo. On 10 June 1903 he married Vrouwtje van der Borg in Rotterdam, a daughter of Salomon van der Borg and Grietje Frank. The couple had six children of whom their daughter Jeanette died on 29 May 1905, only 9 days old. Son Carl was a cook by trade in the merchant navy. In 1938 he lived at the address from his parents and has survived the war. Daughter Rosalina married in 1930 but divorced in 1932. In 1938 she left for London and has survived the war too. The other children, namely Grietje, Anna and Jeanette were killed in the Shoah.
Jankel Chasler arrived on 31 January 1899 via Hamburg in the city of Rotterdam, where he lived in at Nieuwe Binnenweg 263b with Lebo and since Januari 1901 at Kruisstraat 52 with Samson. He was a grain inspector by trade.
Since Jankel was married, there were other members of the family who lived in with Jankel and his wife Vrouwtje, like Jankel’s mother Enna Lebo and Margaretha de Wolff from Middelburg, a cousin of Jankel’s wife, as well his brothers Manuel and Burich Kelmanof. They too were killed in the Shoah. Only Jankel’s sister Ruchel, who also lived in with the family, has survived the Holocaust.
Jankel Chasler was registered in Camp Westerbork on 17 September 1942, together with his wife Vrouwtje van der Borg and on 28 September were both deported to Auschwitz where they have been killed immediately upon arrival there on 1 October 1942.
City Archive of Rotterdam, family registration cards of among others Jankel Chasler, the Peoples Registry of Rotterdam, website www.wiewaswie.nl and the file cabinet of the Jewish Council, registration card of Jankel Chasler.