Their only son, Wilhelm Alfred was born on July 17th 1922 in Vienna. He came with the first Kindertransport, organized by Mrs. Wijsmuller-Meijer, from Vienna to the Netherlands, where he arrived on December 11th, 1938 and was placed in the quarantine facility in a school in the Copernicusstraat, The Hague. Upon arrival it was discovered that Wilhelm was sick: he was transferred to the Zuidwal Hospital, where he died on January 23rd, 1939, due to hepatitis. Wilhelm was buried at the Jewish Cemetery in Wassenaar.
Father Wieselthier was summoned to come to his son’s deathbed by phone, but arrived too late. After his death Lilly Wieselthier was granted special permission to come to the Netherlands as well. While waiting for their emigration to Bolivia the Wieselthier couple decided to remain in the Netherlands.
With permission of all the relevant authorities the couple took on five children in their house at Schenkstraat 217 in The Hague. Amongst them were the brothers Herbert (born September 30th, 1931 in Isselburg), and Kurt Sander (born June 12th, 1927 in Isselburg) and their younger brother, who survived the war. The twins Edith and Egon Sanders (born March 5th, 1928 in Lobberich) also came to live with the Wieselthiers, while their older brother who was living in “Huis ten Vijver”, a home for refugee children in Scheveningen, visited them very often and was “perfectly happy” there.
On May 15th, 1940 Richard and Lilly Wieselthier were found dead in their home. The five children were transferred to “Huis ten Vijver”, which subsequently was cleared out by orders of the Germans two weeks later. The children were to stay at many different addresses before their lives ended in Auschwitz or Sobibor.
The Wieselthier couple was not buried at the Jewish Cemetery in Wassenaar.