Biography

The fate of Ruth Vera Arndt-Joachimsthal

Ruth Vera Arndt Joachimsthal was a daughter of Georg Joachimsthal and Marie Grünzweig. She was born in 1919 in Berlijn and was married to Werner Jakob Arndt, 16 October 1939 she arrived in Holland but was imprisoned 4 April 1940 in Camp Westerbork, together with her husband. She too was deported with the 1st trandport from Camp Westerbork to Auschwitz. Upon arrival she was not immediately killed; her date of death has been established as 30 September 1942.

Sources: website Alle Drenten, certificate of death nr. 8 dated 28 July 1955, made out in the Municipality of Westerbork; The German Memorial of the victims of the nazi prosecution; website www.wiewaswie.nl, death of Ruth Vera Arndt-Joachimsthal and the file cabinet of t he Jewish Council, registration card of ruth Vera Arndt.

 

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