@AuschwitzMuseum (1/n) Martha was married to Joseph, born 07-08-1900 who was a shoe merchant. They had a daughter Eva, born 25-05-1931 and lived in Dortmund. Probably after 'kristallnacht' they knew they had to leave Germany. Eva is the first. In November 1938 she arrived in the Netherlands.
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@AuschwitzMuseum (2/n) She has been in an orphanage but finally gets with friends of the family in The Hague. Evi dreams of becoming a fashion illustrator and refuses to speak a single word of German. She first attends a public school but in 1941 she is no longer allowed to.
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@AuschwitzMuseum (3/n) She then had to walk (as she was not allowed to take the tram) to a Jewish school.
The family of a non-Jewish schoolfriend offer her to live with them and pretend she's the sister of her friend. But Eva doesn't dare to accept that. From August 1942 she is in Westerbork.
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@AuschwitzMuseum (4/n) Father Joseph moved in January 1939 to the Netherlands. He's first placed in a small refugee camp but in 1941 moves to Westerbork which was then also still a refugee camp.
Mother Martha comes to the Netherlands in August 1940. Until January 1942 she lives in Enschede.
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@AuschwitzMuseum (5/n) From August 1942 the family 'lives' reunited in Westerbork. As Joseph was 1 of the first in Westerbork (and a German) the family were so-called 'Alt Lagereinsassen'. Those people had certain privileges and were also (in the beginning) protected from deportation.
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@AuschwitzMuseum (6/n) But on 04-09-1944 they go to Theresienstadt with the second to last transport. On 29-09-1944 Joseph is sent to Auschwitz and Martha and Eva on 04-10-1944. Martha and Eva are both gassed on arrival😢
Joseph is selected into the camp he dies 31-03-1945 in Bergen-Belsen.
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@AuschwitzMuseum (7/n) Martha's father, Salomon Schoemann, had survived the war and died in January 1946. In the obituary it says:
'Joseph & Martha Voss, aufenth. unb.'
meaning 'Whereabouts unknown'.
So their family still didn't know what happened to them. 😢
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@AuschwitzMuseum (8/8) Dear Martha, we will remember you and your husband Joseph and your daughter Eva. 😢💔🕯️✡️
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