Biography

About Bertha Jordaan-Biedermann

Bertha Biedermann was a daughter of Maijer Markus Biedermann and Justine Kann. She married 31 July 1912 in Zaandam to Abraham Crost, a son of Michel Crost and Hanna Vas Dias. Bertha and Abraham had a daughter in 1913, who left for England in 1940 and survived the war.
On 17 December 1926 Bertha divorced Abraham Crost and 16 February 1928 she remarried the also divorced Jerphaas Jordaan, a son of Katrinus Jordaan and Jenneke van Straten. He passed away in Amsterdam on 12 October 1941. From Bertha's 2nd wedlock no children have been born.
Bertha self had two brothers and two sisters: Karel, Isaac, Thérèse and Regina. They too have been killed in the Shoah.
City Archive of Amsterdam, archive cards of Bertha Biedermann, Jerphaas Jordaan, Abraham Crost and website www.wiewaswie.nl.