Biography

About Engellina Cracau

Martha Kesner was married. She worked as a seamstress. Her daughter Engellina was born in Camp Westerbork on 23 October 1943. Since Martha’s husband was unable to register the birth ‘because of absence’, it was registered by the gynaecologist Herman Heymans.
The husband of Martha Cracau-Kesner survived the war.
Record of birth certificates of the Westerbork municipality, currently at the archives of Gemeente Midden-Drenthe in Beilen