As far as is known, Rachel Rosner was a loving, spontaneous, young woman with a beautiful smile. After the First World War, Rachel arrived in the Netherlands as an Austrian foster child. She got along extremely well with her foster-parents. During the summer months, she went back to her parents Salomon Rosner and Lea Schnitzel who lived in Vienna. Rachel first completed a few years of the school for advanced primary education and continued to become a corset seamstress. First she worked for an employer and later she had her own studio/workshop.
During the holidays in Vienna she met Salomon Schachner. On 23 May 1937 they married in Vienna in the synagogue in the Leopoldsgasse. In January 1939 Rachel and Salomon escaped to the Netherlands. Rachel arrived by train because she had an Austrian passport and Salomon made the trip by foot. Rachel lived temporarily with her foster-parents while Salomon went to live in Haarlem.
In 1940, all the Jews had to leave the coastal areas. That’s why Salomon moved to Arnhem where Rachel joined him.
In 1942 they moved to Amsterdam. They have lived at many different addresses. For unknown reasons, Salomon and Rachel lived separately from each other for a while. On 9 December 1942 a child was born. In May 1943 Salomon was arrested and deported to Vught. Rachel had her child hidden with friends and she followed Salomon to Vught. They stayed there a couple of months and were eventually deported via Westerbork to Auschwitz on 15 November 1943. On 31 January 1944 they were both killed in Auschwitz.
Rachel and Salomon continue to exist in their child, grandchildren and great-grandchildren.
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