Kurt Adolf Roeders

The father of Kurt Adolf Roeders changed his name from Rosenbaum to Roeders, long before the war. After his studies Kurt Roeders started working for Adolf Rosenbaum & Sohn and later became co-owner. He married Liselotte M.F.Selinko, whose family originated from Hungary. The couple fled in 1938 from Germany to Haarlem, where their daughter Antoinette Elizabeth was born in 1940. They were arrested b…

Liselotte Margarete Felicitas Selinko was born into a Jewish family in Vienna on February 22, 1917. Her ancestors (with the exception of one grandfather who was born in Hungary) all come from Vienna. Her family owned a business in the textile industry and was well-off until World War I. Her older sister, the 1914 born Annemarie Selinko, became a very successful writer. Her father Felix Selinko lef…