Jeannette Dreese was a daughter of Lucas Dreese and Sientje Bosboom. 27 May 1920 she married in Amsterdam Simon Alexander Stern, a son of Benjamin Stern and Rebekka de Horst. The couple had three children, namely Benjamin, Lucas and Maurice. Only Maurice has survived the Holcaust; in July 1945 he was registered at the address Biesboschstraat 22 II in Amsterdam. According notes on his registration card of the Jewish Council, he was “exempted according list 3/12 (26 July 1942)”. His sibs Lucas and Benjamin were killed in the Shoah.
Jeannette Dreese was registered in Camp Westerbork on 17 September 1942, togehter with her husband Simon Alexander Stern. However, the next day on 18 September they were both deported to Auschwitz where both upon arrival there on 21 September were killed immediately.
Lucas Stern, tailor by profession and unmarried, was sent from concentration camp Vught to Camp Westerbork and 15 November 1943 deported to Auschwitz. There he had to do hard labor and as a result of hardship lost his life eventually on 31 January 1944.
His brother Benjamin Stern, a furrier and also unmarried, was just as his brother Maurice “exempted according list 3/21 (26 July 1942)”. However he was arrested in Amsterdam and imprisoned. On 25 March 1943 he was sent out of that prison to concentration camp Vught, from where he was sent back in Westerbork on 29 June 1943 and that same day deported to Sobibor. Upon arrival there on 2 July 1943 he was immediately killed.
City archive of Amsterdam, archive card of Simon Alexander Stern; the file cabinet of the Jewish Council, registration cards of Simon Alexander Stern, Jeannette Stern-Dreese, Lucas Stern, Maurice Stern and Benjamin Stern