Edith van Geens-Goldstein

Berhardine lived with her parents, Max Moses Goldstein ((22.12.1885) and Fanny Feige Goldstein née Schurberg (16.03.1884) in Duisburg, Germany until she moved to Kalkar in 1938. She emigrated to Holland in 1939 with her sister Edith, who was also deported. Her brother Arthur (1920) emigrated illegally to Holland in December 1938, then from Belgium emigrated illegally to Palestine in 1939. Their pa…

Edith is listed as a Shoah victim on the Federal German Memorial site (http://www.bundesarchiv.de/gedenkbuch/de1675021) but is not in the Dutch Nederlandse oorlogsslachtoffers Database (nor on this site, till now). I have requested that her personal card be made accessible at the Stadsarchief Amsterdam, but would appreciate more information if anyone has some!

Edith Goldstein married Victor Emanuel van Geens on July 13, 1942. Both were in the first transport from Westerbork to Auschwitz two days later.