In the family of Levie Lievendag (1822-1908) and Hester Frankenhuis (1828-1892), eleven children were born besides also a stillborn daughter, among them Rosetta, born 10 June 1858. The other children in this family were Salomon, Heijman, Hendrina, Roosje, Elisabeth, Karel, Jacob, Abraham, Dina and Isak.
Heijman and Karel died as babies, they became not yet a year old and her brother Isak died at the age of 3 in 1874. Her brother Salomon and sisters Hendrina, Roosje and Elisabeth have died before the outbroke of the war. None of them were married.
Only Rosetta self, Jacob, Abraham and Dina died after 1940: Her brother Jacob and his wife Bertha Elkus were killed in Sobibor 9 April 1943. Abraham died in Oldenzaal 15 September 1941 and 10 February 1942, Dina passed away in Oldenzaal too.
Rosette Lievendag, who was unmarried and lived Steenstraat 32 in Oldenzaal was registered in Westerbork 30 March 1943 and deported at the age of 84 to Sobibor 13 April. On arrival there 16 April 1943 she has been immediately killed.
Website www.wiewaswie.nl; website www.zoekakten.nl, certificates of birth of the children of Levie Levie Lievendag and Hester Frankenhuis; website www.hetstenenarchief.nl; the file cabinet of the Jewish Council, registration card of Rosetta Lievendag and the book “Extermination Camp Sobibor” by Jules Schelvis, 2nd edition, Bataafse Leeuw 1994, transportlist of 13 April 1943.