Biography

Born in Halberstadt, Germany on 1 February 1924, Ilse Sara Rothschild arrived in Holland with her parents Julius Rothschild and Rosa Heijdecker, her brother Werner and sister Johanna. Ilse's Joodsche Raad card shows that she was sent to Westerbork on 29 September 1943. The family was transported to Bergen-Belsen on 15 February 1944. There, Julius Rothschild died on 25 February 1945. Rosa Rothschild-Heijdecker returned to Amsterdam with her children Hannie, Werner - who later made aliyah - and Ilse, who qualified as a doctor in 1960. Ilse married Wybrand Scheffer (16-10-1925 to 21-10-1975), a psychiatrist attached to Duin en Bosch hospital in Castricum. Later she lived on Minervaplein in Amsterdam, and spent her last years at a care home in Baarn. She died on 27 July 1996 and is buried at Muiderberg cemetery.