Biography

About Elisabeth Hilversum-Brander

Elisabeth Brander was a daughter of Isaac Brander and Marianne van Bever. She married 2 March 1921 in Amsterdam to Hijman Hilversum, son of Nathan Hilversum and Jentje van der Horst.
Besides her brothers Raphael, Nathan, Elias and Barend who have been killed in the Holocaust, it were also her sister-in-law Sophie Schelvis who was married to her brother Hartog who has died already in 1923 and her brother-in-law Joseph Ritmeester, widower of her sister Aaltje Brander who had died in January 1940.
City Archive of Amsterdam, archive card of Isaac Brander and website www.wiewaswie.nl.