Rosetta van Straten was a daughter of Manuël van Straten and Helena Frank. She was born in Herwijnen on 28 August 1885 into a family of in total seven children, and of whom the youngest born in 1890 was a stillborn son.
On 24 July 1922 Rosetta left Herwijnen for Rotterdam, where she was registered as a private nurse and where she has lived in with her family Jacob, Elisabeth, Zadok and Louis van Zwanenbergh at Sophiakade 83a and of whom Louis was married to Rosetta’s sister Johanna van Straten.
On 27 September 1922 she was officially registered at the address Jonas Daniel Meijerplein 20 3rd floor in Amsterdam, where her husband Abraham Louis de Vries lived and to whom she was married on 20 September in Amsterdam. He was born there on 20 November 1881 as a son of Louis Izaak de Vries and Johanna Parser and he was a diamond weigher by profession. From this marriage no children were born.
Rosetta and her husband moved on 24 March 1928 to Tuinbouwstraat 90 1st floor in Betondorp, a district in East Amsterdam and on 29 January 1936 from there to Spinozastraat 19 2nd floor. They shortly have lived in the municipality of Gorinchem, before they were registered in Amsterdam at Govert Flinckstraat 275 1st stock. There Abraham de Vries passed away on 20 January 1940 and he was interred in the Jewish Cemetery in Diemen.
After Rosetta de Vries-van Straten was widowed, she moved again to Gorinchem on 24 July 1940 where she lived in the Kruisstraat 11. There she has made efforts to go into hiding but after she had been arrested in March 1943, she was carried off concentration camp Vught on 2 April 1943. On 17 April 1943 she was transported to Westerbork where she had to stay in barrack 65, waiting for her deportation.
Ten days later, on 27 April 1943, Rosetta de Vries-van Straten was put on transport to Sobibor, where she was immediately killed in the gas chambers there on arrival on 30 April 1943.
Sources include the City Archive of Amsterdam, archive cards of Rosetta van Stratenand Abraham Louis de Vries; residential cards Amsterdam of the Jonas Daniel Meijerplein 20, Tuinbouwstraat 90 and Spinozastraat 19; the City Archive of Rotterdam, registration Peoples Registry of Rosetta van Straten;family registration card of Jacob van Zwanenbergh; website het stenenarchief.nl/grave Abraham de Vries; website ITS Arolson/registration Vught of Rosette de Vries-van Straten (Rosette ipv Rosetta) and the file cabninet of the Jewish Council, registration cards of Rosetta de Vries-van Straten.