Messcher family photographs
Extent and Medium
folder
1
Creator(s)
- Messcher family
Biographical History
Hermanus (Herman) and Marie Rosenberg Messcher lived on 34 Statenweg in Rotterdam in the Netherlands with their four children: Frits (born July 11, 1936), Martijn (born January 17, 1934), Carola (Carry; born December 31, 1937) and Martha (born October 25, 1942). Herman worked for the Jewish council in Rotterdam. Herman was arrested and sent to Westerbork on March 6, 1943. Marie, Frits, Martijn, and Martha were sent to Westerbork on May 6, 1943; Carola, who was living with the Den Hartogh family in Amsterdam, was arrested later and joined her family at the camp. The youngest child, Martha, died in Westerbork on June 6, 1943. The rest of the family was deported to Theresienstadt in February 1944, where Herman died in April. Marie and the children were sent to the Czech family camp in Birkenau on May 16, 1944 and were killed when the family camp was liquidated on July 7, 1944.
Archival History
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
Acquisition
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, Gift of Martijn Visser
Martijn Visser donated these photographs to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 2014. His grandfather, Daniel Bosgra, was a family friend of the Messchers and took the photographs of the children.
Scope and Content
Consists of two photographs of the Messcher children; one photograph of Frits Messcher (b. 1936) and Martijn Messcher (b. 1934), and one photograph of Martijn holding his infant sister Martha (b. 1942). The photographs were taken in Rotterdam on April 4, 1943. In the photographs, the children are wearing the Jewish star (Magen David).
People
- Messcher, Frits.
- Messcher, Martijn.
- Messcher, Martha.
Subjects
- Magen David.--1930-1940.
- Rotterdam (Netherlands)
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Netherlands--Rotterdam.
Genre
- Photographs.
- Document