Frieda Driels from Gross Karben/Friedberg/Hessen (Germany) was a daughter of Nathan Driels and Lina mai. 14 May 1914 she married in Haarlem Eliazer Drielsma from Leeuwarden, a son of David Drielsma and Henderina van der Kaars. The couple had no children.
Of Frieda Driels is known that she had another three brothers, viz. Ludwig David Driels, Adolf Jacob Driels and Moritz Driels and a sister Johanna Driels, all born at Gross Karben in Germany. It appeared from the “ Deutsch Gedenkbuch, Opfer der Verfolgung der Juden unter der nationalsozialistischen Gewaltherrschaft in Deutschland 1933-1945“, that her brothers Moritz, born 25 October 1882 and Adolf Jacob, born 1 September 1881, were killed in Auschwitz 10 August 1942. Her sister Johanna Vos-Driels was murdered in Treblinka on 23 September 1942 (source Memorial Bundesarchiv.de) and he brother Ludwit David passed away in Gross Karben in 1934.
Her father Nathan Driels was one of the twelve children of Hartog Driels and Friederike Pels. One of his sisters was Rozette Driels (an cousin of Frieda), who was married to Abraham van Coevorden from Groningen. Rozette Driels passed away in Amsterdam 1 March 1942, 87 years old and she was interred two days later, 3 March 1942 in the Jewish Cemetery at Muiderberg. Another sibling of her father Nathan was Mozes Driels, married to Jettchen/Jenny Wohl. Mozes Driels became the father of Marianne Driels, who was married to Moses Leon Hirschtick. Then there was also her cousin Else Driels who lived in Amsterdam since 1938; she was a daughter of her brother Moritz Driels .
Frieda Driels and her husband were sent and registered in Camp Westerbork between 3 and 5 October 1942 and both have been deported to Auschwitz 12 October where upon arrival they were killed immediately 15 October 1943.
The Archive of Noordholland, certificate of death of Frieda Driels; website www.wiewaswie.nl, marriage Frieda Driels to Eliazer Drielsma and the file cabinet of the Jewish Council, registration cards of Frieda Drielsma-Driels and Eliazer Drielsma and additions by de editors of Joods Monument on behalf of Mrs. Marianne Pijpstra-Cranenbroek of Haarlem.