Biography

About Rosette Baks

Rosette Baks was a daughter of Abraham Jozef Baks and Saarte Frank. She was unmarried and resided since 23 November 1935 at Weteringskade 103 in Den Haag. At some point she moved to a branche of the Israelitic Old Men- and Womenshome Newee Sjalom in Den Haag  at Surinamestraat 16, where Rosette stayed and from where she eventually has been deported to Auschwitz and upon arrival there has been killed there on 26 March 1942.

Rosette Baks was born into a family with six children, of whom one son born in 1883 has died already in 1884, only 1 year old. Her other siblings were she self born in 1875, Maurits born in 1877, Jozef born in 1881, Izaak born in 1885 and Mietje born in 1888. They have been all killed in the Shoah. His parents were married in Deventer on 8 April 1869 and they have died already before the war.

Website www.wiewaswie.nl; Municipal Archive of Den Haag, peoples registry/family registration card of Rosette Baks.