Marcus Frankenhuis, born in Enschede, graese shopkeeper and son of Heiman Frankenhuis and Sophia Meijer, married 19 Juli 1907 in Zwolle Betje Kanteman from Hengelo, a daughter of Simon Kanteman and Hanna Jacobson. Marcus Frankenhuis resided before 1905 at Zuiderhagen 36 in Enschede but 19 July 1905 he moved with his newly wed wife to Emmastraat 109 and later again to Bleekerstraat 43 in that city.
The couple had three children in Enschede: one daughter, born 1906 died as a baby of 8 months old; another daughter passed away in 1935 at age 24 and their son Simon Heiman, born op 4 Augustus 1907 was killed in Mauthausen 9 November 1941,
Marcus Frankenhuis and his wife Betje Kanteman moved 16 September 1941 to Amsterdam, (most likely obligatory) where they lived at President Steijnplantsoen 15 down flort. Notes at the registration card of the Jewish Council of his wife Betje read among others: " Function: caretaker of dead bodies since 1920 and zealot of Jewish interests but due to personal grief rather pessimistic and with a weak health". However, due to her function as "caretaker of dead bodies" she and her husband were exempted from deportation ("gesperrt bis aus weiteres").
27 May 1943 they were registered in Camp Westerbork and stayed in barack 62. 1 June Marcus and hiw wife Betje were deported to Sobibor and upon arrival there 4 June 1943 immediateliy killed. A note on Marcus' registration card of the Jewish Council made 30 June 1943 reads: "Proxy given to notary Zonnevylle in Enschede.......".
In the family of his parents, Heiman Frankenhuis, (a son of Koopman Meijer Frankenhuis and Henrijetta Joseph Davie) and Sophia Meijer, (a daughter of Ruben Meijer and Ziena Philips), nine children were born. Of those, one child died at the age of 6 and another died only five days old. One child survived the Holocaust but the other five children were all killed in the Shoah.
Marcus' brother Ruben and sister Adela were unmarried. Both were killed in Sobibor. His brother Hertog and is family was also killed in Sobibor and his brother Israël with his wife in Auschwitz. Only his sister Ziena passed away in her residence Schoonhoven 18 April 1942 and she was interred in the Jewish Cemetery there.
Historic Centre Overijssel, certificate of marriage of Marcus Frankenhuis and Betje Kanteman nr. 74 from Hengelo; City Archive of Amsterdam, archive card of Marcus Frankenhuis; website www.wiewawwie.nl; website akevoth.org/hetstenenarchief/begraafplaats Schoonhoven and the file cabinet of the Jewish Council, registration cards of Marcus Frankenhuis and Betje Frankenhuis-Kanteman.