Roosje Roos was the eldest daughter of Levie Roos and Sara Binger. She was born on 26 March 1880 in Rotterdam and remained unmarried. She had six other siblings, of whom, except her self, certainly two brothers were murdered during the Shoah. The others have survived the Holocaust or have died already before the war.
Roosje’s parents, Levie Roos and Sara Binger, stayed many years in Antwerp, where he father earned his living as retailer in ready-to-wear. But since January 1904, Roosje stayed again in Rotterdam but left that year on 8 September 1904 to Amsterdam, where she lived in the Wilhelminastraat 11 downfloor. Her sister Alida left Antwerp for Brussels in January 1904 but joined her sister Roosje in the Wilhelminastraat in Amsterdam on 29 November 1904.
In October 1905, Roosje left Amsterdam for Rheden and for Velp near Arnhem, where she stayed at the address Zuider Parallelweg 70b. Her sister Alida left Amsterdam one year later for Brugweg 102G in Velp and has been officially unsubscribed from the Peoples Registry of Amsterdam on 16 July 1906.
Up from 14 November 1911, Roosje arrived in Den Haag, where she resided between 1911 and 1937 certainly at twelve different addresses. She has worked as nurse, and later as a room landlady. Her last known address was Veurschestraat in Leidschendam, as was registered at her registration card of the Jewish Council.
Roosje arrived in Camp Westerbork on 3 June 1944 where she was locked up in the penal barrack 68. Most likely she had gone into hiding but has been arrested due to betrayal. On 3 September 1933 she was deported as a penal case with another 1018 deportees in the last transport to Auschwitz, which also included Anne Frank, Otto Frank, Margot Frank, Auguste van Pels, Ronnie Goldstein-van Cleef and Bloeme Evers-Emden.
Upon arrival on 6 September 1944, Roosje Roos has been gassed immediately in the gas chambers of Auschwitz-Birkenau.
Sources include the Dossier of Foreigners no 108973 for Levie Roos; the City Archive of Rotterdam, family registration card of Levie Roos; the City Archive of Amsterdam, closed registration cards of families; the Municipal Archive of Den Haag, family registration cards of Roosje Roos; the file cabinet of the Jewish Council, registration card of Roosje Roos and the Wikipedia listing of Jodentransporten vanuit Nederland.nl and the death certifcate made out in Den Haag for Roosje Roos, no. C-3556 dated 14 December 1950.