Biography

About Elvire Sanders-Platz

Elvire Platz was married. She was the daughter of Ida Platz-Heimbach. She belonged to the group of Jews who were baptised Catholics.
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Elvire Platz was married to Joseph Sanders, who died in Leiden in 1939. They were both Catholic. After the war, devotional pictures were made for both of them. On the back of the picture for Elvire Platz is a reference to the farewell letter she wrote in Westerbork.
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Elvire Platz married in 1918. One year later she had a child which she had baptised.
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