Rosetta Slagterm born 5 October 1918 and the eldest daughter of Barend Mozes Slagter and Henriette Polak, lived at home with her parents at Essenburgsingel 82b in Rotterdam, where her father runned an advertsing agency. She worked at the stencil department of a stencil shop, but organized also tutoring for pupils of MULO and HBS. She graduated her diploma Gynasium B at the Rotterdam Lyceum and possessed also a certificate for religious education and worked also as a religious teacher.
Rosetta was the only one in the Slagter family, who received on 26 July 1942 an official “Sperre” (I.D. Z.1131) from the Jewish Council, an exemption from deportation for the time being, “because of function”. Except a religious teacher, she was also working as an assistant nurse in the Israelitic Hospital in Rotterdam, where she would have been working till 19 January 1943. But on 22 April 1943, she was carried off to concentration camp Vught and from there on 2 July transported to Westerbork, where she ended up in barrack 58 then.
Her elder brother as well her parents did have a Jewish Council I.D. but they had no official exemption from deportation. They were arrested simultaneously and carried off to Westerbork but deported to – and killed in Sobibor at different dates. Her other two sisters, of whom one was married, and her youngest brother had been deported to Auschwitz already early August 1942 in the context of the “Arbeitseinsatz”, where they have lost their lives in the end of September 1942.
On 6 July 1943, Rosetta Slagter was put on transport to Sobibor. On arrival there, she was immediately killed on 9 July 1943 in the gas chambers there.
Sources include the City Archive of Rotterdam, family registration card of Barend Mozes Slagter, the file cabinet of the Jewish Council, registration card of Rosetta Slagter and the website ITS Arolson/camp card of Rosetta Slagter.