About Neeltje van Rood

Neeltje van Rood, descendent of Benjamin van Rood and Sientje van Spier

By: Redactie Joods Monument

Benjamin van Rood, born in 1838, married Sientje van Spier in Hilversum on 21 June 1865. She was born in 1836. This couple had eleven children in total, of whom five have died as babies – none of them became older than 1 year.
Of the children, who reached adulthood, Kaatje, Neeltje, Eva, Mathilda and Susanna van Rood were killed in the Shoah. Only Mietje has survived the Holocaust.

Neeltje van Rood was the spouse of Jacob Frank, to whom she was married on 2 November 1891. However, Jacob Frank passed away in Hilversum on 13 October 1939.

Neeltje and Jacob had six children, namely Sienje, Levie, Johanna, Benjamin, Salomon and Susanna Mathilda. Benjamin died in Batavia (Dutch East Indies), killed by the Japanese Kempetai. Levie and his sister Johanna have survived the Holocaust but Salomon, Susanna Mathilda and Sientje were killed in the Shoah.

The widowed Neeltje Frank-van Rood was registered per 1 April 1940 at the addresss Rijnstraat 154 I in Amsterdam, were her daughter Sientje and her husband Lazarus Gosschalk resided. In November 1942 she moved to Herzogstraat 6 in Eastern Amsterdam and on 9 April 1943 she was registered in Camp Westerbork where she had to stay in barak 65. On 27 April she was deported to Sobibor and upon arrival there immediately killed on 30 April 1943.

Sources a.o. : City Archive of Amsterdam, archive card of Neeltje van Rood; the file cabinet of the Jewish Council, registration cards of the various Van Rood families and an addition of a visitor of the website.