Rosetta den Hartog was a daughter of Abraham den Hartog and Leentje den Hartog. Since their mother was ailing, Rosetta and her sister Saar did the housework and various chores at their father's kosher butcher shop. Rosetta was lame. She had a vast social network, served on several committees and organized parties.
On 14 August 1942 Rosetta was summoned to Depot 24 on the Entrepôtstraat (the place of assembly for Jews in Rotterdam) for work expansion in Germany. Instead of reporting there, she went to the Israëlitisch Ziekenhuis (Jewish Hospital) on the Schietbaanlaan in Rotterdam, where her sister Elisabeth was the director. She was registered there as a nurse.
In the early morning hours of 26 February 1943, the Sicherheitspolizei raided the Israëlitisch Ziekenhuis in Rotterdam aided by the volunteer auxiliary police. All patients and nurses were deported to Westerbork, including Rosetta den Hartog. On 10 March 1943 she was deported from Westerbork to Sobibor with her father Abraham and her sister Sara Betrina. On Friday morning 13 March they arrived there and were gassed the same day.
J. de Moei, In het net gevangen. Een joods gezin in de Tweede Wereldoorlog. Ridderkerk, Rotterdam, Westebork, Polen (Rotterdam 2003) 13, 49-51, 61, 69 and 83
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