Eva Fuld was a daughter of Louis Fuld and Jeannetta de Winter. She was born on 8 January 1915 in Rotterdam and she was employed as a factory worker. On 20 October 1937 she married in Rotterdam the fur trader Michel Bobbe, who was born on 16 November 1915 in Den Haag as a son of Benjamin Bobbe and Mietje de Winter. The couple had two children, viz. Benjamin in February 1939 and Louis in March 1941.
Michel Bobbe arrived with his parents and siblings already in 1916 from Den Haag in Rotterdam, where they came to live in the Helmersstraat 30b and after some more relocations, the Bobbe family lived again in the Helmersstraat, but now in house nr. 24b. When Michel married Eva Fuld in 1937 they found living space on 27 October 1937 at Kruiskade 107 - a lodging – but on 25 June 1938 they moved again to the Helmersstraat, where they moved into a house at nr. 20b. It is clear however, that after the bombardment of Rotterdam on 14 May 1940, they have moved to Den Haag at some point: their last known address there was Geleenstraat 88 1st floor.
Michel Bobbe has been arrested and carried off to Westerbork already early October 1942 and registered there between 3 and 5 October. On 16 October 1942 he was put on transport to Auschwitz, where he received prison number 176677 and was put to work there. Not known is however where exactly and what kind of work he had to perform.
Research from the Duth Red Cross show, that Michel Bobbe belonged to a large group of prisoners, who were evacuated westward with the so-called “abduction and/or evacuation transports” in the so-called “end period” 1944/1945. On 7 February 1945 he was transported by train from the Auschwitz complex to Gross Rosen and from there, most likely on foot, via Liegnietz, Goerlitz, Dresden, Chemnitz, Gern, Jena and Weimar to Buchenwald. On 10 February 1945 Michel Bobbe was registered there and received the prisoners number 125827; on 19 February Michel was hospitalized in the camp hospital (Krankenbau) in Buchenwald, where he died on 1 March 1945 due to “heartweakness and pleurisy”.
From data on the registration cards from the Jewish Council of Eva Fuld and her children Benjamin and Louis, it appeared that at some point the children were accomodated in the Central Israelitic Orphanage in Leiden, but it is unkown who brought them there. According to notes on her registration card, mother Eva has been brought into Westerbork camp already between 3 and 5 October, together with their father Michel. Both the children stayed in the Jewish Orphanage from 7 November 1942 till 17 March 1943. On that date, the Orphanage was vacated by the Leiden police, by order of the German occupier and all the children, among them Benjamin and Louis Bobbe, were carried off and brought to Westerbork on 19 March 1943.
In Westerbork however, inquiries were made about the whereabouts of the parents of Benjamin and Louis Bobbe, presumably in the context of a so-called family reunification. Notes on Benjamin’s card show however that “father Michel Bobbe” was already deported on 16 October 1942 and “mother Eva Fuld” had arrived in Westerbork on 3 October 1942. Both the little brothers then were put on transport in the next train of 4 May 1943 to Sobibor and they too were immediately murdered in the gas chambers there upon arrival on 7 May 1943.
An 18-year old distant cousin (6th degree), named Jetje Bobbe, a daughter of Samuel Bobbe and Marianne Lens, was employed there since 1 April 1942 as a maid and domestic aid in the Jewish Orphanage in Leiden. She was exempted from deportation because of function for the time being by the Jewish Council. But when the Orphanage was emptied on 17 March 1943 by the Leiden Police by order of the Germans, she ended up in Westerbork camp on 19 March 1943 were she was locked up in the penal barrack 66. On 23 March 1943 she was deported to Sobibor and upon arrival there on 26 March 1943 immediately muredered in the gas chambers.
Eva Bobbe-Fuld, on the other hand, seems to be transferred from Westerbork to concentration camp Vught at some point, but unknown is when. Brief notes on her registration card from the Jewish Council made it clear however that she was sent from Vught to Westerbork again on 7 June 1943. Eva Fuld presumably was "deployed" as an escort in the so-called children's transport, which departed from Vught to Westerbork on 6/7 June 1943 and on 8 June left for Sobibor with all the children and their parents and escorts. In total 3017 deportees: 613 men, 1350 women, 1051 children till 16 years of age, among them 242 todlers and 55 babies. Upon arrival there on 11 June 1943 the entire transport of over 3000 people was almost immediately murdered in the gas chambers there, among them also Eva Bobbe-Fuld.
Sources include the City Archive of Rotterdam, family registration cards of Louis Fuld, Benjamin Bobbe and Michel Bobbe; the Municipal Archive of Den Haag, family registration card of Benjamin Bobbe, the certificate of death nr. B36 for Michel Bobbe dated 6 January 1949; the file cabinet of the Jewish Council, registration cards of Eva Bobbe-Fuld, Michel Bobbe, Benjamin Bobbe, Louis Bobbe and Jetje Bobbe; ITA Arolson archives/registraion Buchenwald of Michel Bobbe and death registration of Michel Bobbe; Dutch Red Cross publication 1952 abduction- and evacuation transport from the Auschwitz complex and the wikipedia websites childrenstransport Camp Vught and jodentransporten vanuit Nederland.nl and additions of visitors of the website among them Aline Pennewaard.