On 14 September 1942, Emma van Essen-Frankenstein left for Amsterdam, probably under Nazi orders. There, on 5 December 1942, at the age of 80, she took her own life.
After the war, Emma van Essen-Frankenstein was reburied in the Jewish cemetery at the Parallelweg in Veenendaal. The tombstone also remembers her deported husband Abraham Levy van Essen.
NIOD, Records Joodse Raad, box 36d, letter dd 8 March 1943;
M. Brink and D. van Kreveld, Geschiedenis van de Joodse gemeenschap in Stichts en Gelders Veenendaal (Veenendaal 2001) 142, 149, 171, 333
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