Biography

About Leentje Olman

Leentje Olman was a daughter of Eliazer Israel Olman and Aaltje Maas. She married in Rotterdam on 5 October 1904 Hendrik Frenk, a son of Levi Frenk and Leentje van Bueren. The couple had two children: Helena in 1905, who survived the war and Eliazer Israel in 1911. Their son however has lost his life in the Shoah.

Leentje Olman and Hendrik Frenk lived since 30 March 1938 still as a couple at Zomerhofstraat 37-a in Rotterdam, but they divorced some years later in Rotterdam on 29 May 1933 (verdict District Court), which has been registered in the Civil Registry on 11 August 1933.  On 5 July 1933 Leentje Olman was registered in Den Haag at the address Damasstraat 45, the same day her daughter Helena married in Rotterdam a non-Jewish man, who has lived in before his marriage to Helena already in the Frenk family at Zomerhofstraat 37-a. After the wedding they too moved on 18 July 1933 to Damasstraat 45 in Den Haag. In November 1939 Leentje Olman returned to Rotterdam where she has been registered per 5 December 1939 at the address De Quackstraat 64-c.

Leentje Olman was deported from Camp Westerbork to Auschwitz on 12 October 1942 and has been killed immediately upon arrival there on 15 October 1942. Also her ex-husband Hendrik Frenk was killed there in Auschwitz at the same day.

City archive of Rotterdam, family registration cards of Hendrik Frenk, Leentje Olman; Municipal Archive of Den Haag, family registration cards of Hendrik Frenk and Helena Frenk and an addition of a visitor of the website.