Hilde Rosendahl was a daughter of Max Rosendahl and Emma Henriette Kussel, the first spouse of her father Max. She has passed away on 12 May 1917 in Odenkirchen (Germany). Two years later on 25 June 1919, her father remarried Julie Stern from Kirchherten. From that marriage Hildes brother Erich was born.
Hilde Rosendahl married on 15 August 1934 in Amsterdam Iwan Illfelder from Iserlohn (Germany). She was already four years in Amsterdam when in 1938 also her family (her father Max and his 2nd wife Julie Stern and brother Erich) came to Amsterdam, where they were registered on 14 November of that year at the address Onbekendegracht 9 II. Hilde and her husband Iwan moved there on 19 July 1938 to live in there too.
On 6 July 1939 Hilde's stepmother Julie Stern passed away in Amsteradm and she was interred on 9 July in the Jewish Cemtery of Diemen. Hilde's father Max, she self, her husband Iwan and brother Erich moved on 29 July 1939 to Zwanenburgwal 34 I. Hilde’s younger brother Erich, child from the 2nd marriage of her father, was housed in February 1940 in the so called Lloyds Hotel at Oostelijke Handelskade 12 in Amsterdam, a reception centre for German refugee children but he was transferred from there to refugee camp Westerbork in July 1940.
The couple Illfelder-Rosendahl eventually has been killed by the nazis, however on different dates: Hilde was interned in concentrationcamp Vught from 10 February till 3 July 1943 and from that date to 7 September 1943 she was in Camp Westerbork. On 7 September she has been deported from Westerbork to Auschwitz were she was killed 30 November 1943, while her husband Iwan Illfelder was killed already on 20 August 1942 in Auschwitz.
Hilde's father Max Rosendahl survived the Holocaust. After the war he returned to Amsterdam after he was deported to Westerbork in July 1943 and from there to Theresienstadt in February 1944.
City Archive of Amsterdam, archive cards of Hilde Rosendahl, Iwan Illfelder Max Rosendahl, Erich Rosendahl and websites Akevoth/Mokum/Burialpermits and www.dokin.nl and Memorial Book of the Victims of the Persecution of Jews under the National Socialist Tyranny in Germany 1933-1945.