Rosalina Schoenlapper was a daughter of Manus Schoenlapper and Rachel Samuel. 6 February 1907 she married in Haarlem Marcus Gaarkeuken, a son of Magiel Gaarkeuken and Grietje van Hessen. The couple had a son Machiel in 1907 and two daughters, namely Rachel in 1909 and Margaretha in 1913. Rosalina's spouse Marcus Gaarkeuken however passed away 27 April 1926 in Haarlem and was interred in the Jewish Cemetery Haarlem Amsterdamse Vaart.
After the passing of her husband, Rosalina and her children moved to Amsterdam, where they resided at Nieuwe Prinsengracht nrs 82 3rd floor and 98 3r floor since August 1927. Her son Machiel was registered for his militairy service in the Registers of the Militia in 1927 and unsubscribed from Amsterdam to Nijmegen and was sent to the Dutch East Indies. 6 February 1946 he returned from Bandoeng in Amsterdam and lived for two months at Diezestraat 34 down floor, where he met his sister Margaretha again and his brother-in-law Meijer Schaap. 4 April 1946 Machiel married in Amsterdam the Swiss-born Ida Frieda Niderhäuser from Zollikofen (Canton Bern) and 6 April 1946 both left for Schaerbeek in Belgium.
Rosalina's daughter Margaretha married 16 Augustus 1942 in Amsterdam Meijer Schaap, a son of Maurits Schaap and Rachel Schellevis. He was born 20 December 1914 in Nijmegen. Meijer Schaap lived already since 1934 in Amsterdam and per September 1940 he lived in with the family of the widow Gaarkeuken at Rijnstraat 74 II. As well Margaretha Gaarkeuken as her husband Meijer Schaap have survived the Shoah and per 15 September 1945 their address was Diezestraat 34 down floor in Amsterdam. In 1947 they moved to Velazquesstraat 21 down floor and since May 954 the live at Michelangelostraat 23 down floor in Amsterdam.
Her daughter Rachel lived already for quite some time at Michelangelostraat 30 III in Amsterdam but in February 1941 she too was registered at the address Rijnstraat 74 II, with her mother and sister Margaretha. She lived there till May 1943 and had to move then to Afrikanerplein 51 I. Only a few weeks later she was sent from there to Camp Westerbork and deported to Sobibor where she was killed 4 June 1943.
Rosalina self was sent 20 January 1943 to Kamp Westerbork which happend to be a "sick transport". She stayed in barack 55 till 2 February, the date she was deported to Auschwitz. Upon arrival there 5 February 1943 she was immediatelty killed.
City Archive of Amsterddam, archive cards of Rosalina Schoenlapper, Rachel Gaarkeuken and Meijer Schaap; residence card of Diezestraat 34 Amsterdam; website www.wiewaswie.nl re registration Militia Machiel Gaarkeuken; www.akevoth.org/ hetstenenarchief.nl re tombstone of Marcus Gaarkeuken and the file cabinet of the Jewish Council, registration cards of Rosalina Gaarkeuken-Schoenlapper, Margaretha Gaarkeuken, Meijer Schaap and Rachel Gaarkeuken.