Fluwelensingel 77

Margot Todtenkopf (23) lived here for a year.
She was born in Prechlau on October 31, 1921. She moved to Berlin with her parents Flora and Alex and sister Anneliese eight years older. Her sister came to Amsterdam at the end of 1937, emigrated to the Mandate Territory of Palestine in March 1938 and survived. Her parents Alex and Flora Todtenkopf-Segall also came to Amsterdam in May 1939. Four months before her parents, 17-year-old Margot emigrated to the Netherlands. From February 1939 she lived on the Ridder van Catsweg in Gouda, and in mid-October that year she moved to the Molenstraat in The Hague.
When foreign refugees had to leave the coastal region, Margot returned to Gouda and went to live at 77 Fluwelensingel on 22 February 1941. The fact that her parents also lived in the Netherlands at this threatening time was perhaps some support for her.
After a year, on February 4, 1942, Margot left for Deventer. Then she went to work in Apeldoorn at the Jewish psychiatric institution the Apeldoornsche Bos. She had a professional certificate as a domestic servant of the Jewish Central for Vocational Training (JCB). As a result, she was blocked according to her Jewish Council card.
During the evacuation of the facility in the night of 21 to 22 January 1943, 1,250 patients and staff were immediately deported to Auschwitz and murdered. Margot and the other staff members and Jewish Apeldoorners ended up in Westerbork on the 22nd of January. On her Jewish Council card you see a lot of fruitless writing about a possible Palestine certificate. Her parents were also imprisoned in Westerbork a week before her, they were transported to Theresienstadt not much later in April. That father Alex had been a front fighter in WW1 may explain that they had to go to this camp.
After a year of Westerbork, Margot also had to go to Theresienstadt. Here she was imprisoned for nine months from mid-January 1944. She will have seen her parents here again. Her father Alex (62) died soon in March 1944, her mother Flora (55) will have lived them even longer. This was over on 19 October and Margot had to go to Auschwitz. Her mother Flora was deported to Auschwitz nine days later and was murdered immediately upon arrival.
Margot's fateful journey was not over yet. She had to go to Bergen-Belsen. Who knows, at the end of October she was in the same forced labor transport from Auschwitz as Anne Frank and her sister. Finally, Margot succumbed to her hardships in Bergen-Belsen on May 1, 1945. Two weeks after the liberation of this camp by the British on April 15. She was one of 14,000 people who experienced the liberation and then died after all. Just like Helen Mayer-Freudenberg from the Zoutmanstraat.
One Stolperstein in front of Blekerssingel 77 now reminds us of Margot Todtenkopf.

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