Willemstraat 65

Aladar Grünfeld was born on May 30, 1894 in Budapest. He is a merchant by trade and has a clothing store in de Rechtsestraat 14.
On 23 May 1935, he opened the Grünfeld's Kleeding Warehouse in the Willemstraat 65 building.
He lives in the same building, together with his mother Amalia Grünfeld-Rost and with his sister Jolan Wiener-Grünfeld and her four children. His mother, who is the widow of Josef Hirs Grünfeld, dies on December 27, 1940 in Eindhoven.
The clothing store on Willemstraat is closed on April 20, 1943 by the "Omnia Treuhandgesellschaft m.b.H.", an agency based in Prague. who dedicated himself to the liquidation of Jewish shops and businesses during the war.
On March 31, 1943, Aladar Grünfeld and his sister Jolan Wiener-Grünfeld are brought to Westerbork. They were deported to Sobibor on April 13, 1943. They were murdered there immediately after arrival on April 16, 1943.

Nissen Mendel (Max) Wiener married in 1914 to Jolan Grünfeld, born in Budapest on March 7, 1891.
The couple came to Eindhoven from Austria in 1915. Max Wiener dies in 1922. The couple have four children, Robert, Theodor, Edmond and Blanca. Jolan Wiener-Grünfeld lives with her brother in the building of his clothing store in Willemstraat.
On March 31, 1943, Jolan Wiener-Grünfeld is brought to Westerbork together with her brother Aladar Grünfeld. On April 13, 1943 the transport to Sobibor follows. There his brother and sister were murdered immediately after arrival on April 16, 1943.
Jolan's four children survived the war. After the war, the three brothers started a radio shop in an emergency shop at Fellenoord, which was later continued at 61 Kruisstraat. The daughter, Blanca, was active as a courier in the resistance during the war. Her cover name was Zr. Olsinga.

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