Jeanette Frank was the fifth of the six children of Levie Frank and Henderina Cohen. She was born on 27 March 1905 in the 1st Pijnakkerstraat 105a in Rotterdam, and lived “at home” till 1930 at the Schiebroekseweg 19a. Her father however was widowed in 1926 and Jeanette, who was unmarried, presumably took care of her father for some time after the death of her mother.
On 1 February 1930 however, Jeanette Frank was unsubscribed from the family registration card of her father (Peoples registry of Rotterdam), who then left from Schiebroeksestraat 19a to a “lodging” with his son Nathan and his wife at Hugo Molenaarstraat 6a in Rotterdam, the address where Nathan had come to live one year earlier. Jeanette then moved to an own address, however unknown where.
Of Jeanette is little or nothing known about her; she was unmarried and had no profession. And there have been made no other details and particulars about her during the mandatory registration of the Jews in the Netherland with the Jewish Council than name, address, residence and date of birth. In April 1952 the was registered at the Gordelweg 173b in the Bergpolder in Rotterdam-North.
It is not known when Jeanette might have been arrested and carried off to Westerbork, or whether she has responded to a call for the so-called “Arbeitseinsatz” in Germany, nor when she was deported to where and under what circumstances she has lost her life.
From her death certificate, drawn up on 18 May 1955 in Rotterdam by order of the Ministry of Justice, nr. 1955.9 – folio 002v, it appears that Jeanette Frank lost her life at the age of 37 on 30 September 1942, somewhere in Mid-Europe.
Sources include the City Archive of Rotterdam, family registration cards of Levie Frank and Nathan Frank; the birth certificate made up in Rotterdam, nr. 3129 from 1905 and the death certificate nr. 9 from 1955 of Jeanette Frank and the file cabinet of the Jewish Council, registration card of Jeanette Frank.