Biography

About Martha Cracau-Kesner

Martha Kesner was married. She worked as a seamstress. Her daughter Engellina was born in Camp Westerbork on 23 October 1943. Since Martha’s husband was unable to register the birth ‘because of absence’, it was registered by the gynaecologist Herman Heymans.
The husband of Martha Cracau-Kesner survived the war.
Record of birth certificates of the Westerbork municipality, currently at the archives of Gemeente Midden-Drenthe in Beilen

Martha Kesner was the daughter-in-law of 445759.
Zeeuws Archief, death certificate A. Cracau, 9-11-1945


This person is commemorated on a memorial in Middelburg. More information on this memorial can be found (in Dutch) on the website of the Nationaal Comité 4 en 5 mei.