Biography

About Rosetta van der Maas

Rosetta van der Maas was a daughter of Michiel van der Maas and Louisa Andriesse. She married Levie Eliazar in Rotterdam on 21 December 1910, a son of Eliazar Eliazar and Saartje de Bok. The couple had in 1911 one sone, named Eliazar, who's son Levie, born in 1933, came to live in with his grandparents Levie Eliazar and Rosetta van der Maas, after his father has been divorced from Grietje Posner in 1936.

Rosetta van der Maas, her husband Levie Eliazar and grandson Levie Eliazar have been registered in Camp Westerborn on 12 Augustus 1942 and deported to Auschwitz on 14 August. Upon arrival there on 16 August 1942, Rosetta and her grandson Levie have been killed immediately. Her husband Levie Eliazar's life was taken there on 30 September 1942.

Rosetta had a sister, who passed in 1936 and two siblings who have died a few months afther their birth. But her sister Eva and her family has been killed during the Holocaust too.

City Archive of Rotterdam, family registration cards of Rosetta van der Maas, Levie Eliazar and Eliazar Eliazar; the file cabinet of the Jewish Council, registration cards of Rosetta Eliazar-van der Maas, Levie Eliazar and Eliazar Eliazar.

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