Hester Park was a daughter of Emanuel Joseph Park and Jetje van Leeuwen. Untill her marriage to Elie Kleinkramer from Strijen, a son of Simon Kleinkramer and Betje den Hartog, she lived at her parental addresses Lijnbaanstraat 12 and Boschlaan 7b in Rotterdam. Afther she was married, she lived with Elie Kleinkramer elsewhere in Rotterdam. The couple had two children, namely Betje in 1917 and Emanuel Joseph in 1921.
The marriage of Hester Park and Elie Kleinkramer however did not last and ended in a divorce on 5 January 1932. After a few removals Hester and her two children came to live in with her parents at the address Zwart Janstraat 43 a.
On 12 October 1942 Hester Kleinkramer-Park, both her children Betje and Emanuel Joseph, but also her father Emanuel Joseph Park and he unmarried sister Sara Park have been deported from Camp Westerbork to Auschwitz. Only Hester's son Emanuel Joseph Kleinkramer was forced to do slave labor and he lost his life there on 28 February 1943.
Hester self, her daughter Betje, her father Emanuel Joseph Park and he sister Sara however were killed immediately upon arrival in Auschwitz on 5 October 1942. Her mother Jetje van Leeuwen passed away in Rotterdam already on 30 July 1942 and was interred there in the Jewish Cemetery Toepad.
City Archive of Rotterdam, family registration cards of Emanuel Joseph Park, Elie Kleinkramer and Hester Park; website www.wiewaswie.nl; the file cabinet of the Jewish Council, cards of the above mentioned family members and an addition of a visitor of the website.