Grotestraat 212

Wolf Leib Israel Engländer was born in Altona (Hamburg) in 1893. Wolf of Willi, as his call sign is, is the owner of the Hinsel & Engelsen company in Hamburg, where toys and jewelry are sold. He marries Marga Bender and they live with her parents. In 1921 they have their daughter Ruth Helene. They divorce and Mrga remarries, but that marriage is very brief. Daughter Ruth stays with her grandparents at the time. When Willi's ex-wife Marga receives an eviction notice in Hamburg, her parents volunteer for the same transport to the Lodz Ghetto in Poland. In Lodz, Marga works as a seamstress and her daughter Ruth as a fashion designer. They are all murdered in 1942. Stumbling Stones were placed for them in Hamburg1.

Willi comes to Borne from Voorburg "for removal from the border area". It is not clear whether he had connections in Borne. As a merchant, he makes a living. He first lived with the Hes family on the Ennekerdijk and later with Van Gelder on the Aanlagsweg. When he is taken away he lives at the Van Gelders on the Grotestraat.

He is employed in camp Overbroek, together with several Born locals. From there he is sent to Auschwitz via Westerbork where he is again sent to a labor camp. He died there in 1943.
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When the war starts, three Van Gelder brothers live on the Grotestraat in Borne. The oldest, Solomon, is then a widower; he died in 1941 and is buried in Borne.

The brothers David and Jacob are faithful to the sisters Geertruida (Truitje) and Mina Hiegenlich from Assen. Jacob and Mina married in 1906 and remain childless, they run an antique shop.

Jacob's brother David is the widower of Mathilde Bambergen when he marries Truitje in 1916. In 1922 David takes over a textile business from Salomon Lievendag and his wife Mietjen van Gelder, who move to Enschede. This store is located at Grotestraat (number 212, now the Chinese restaurant). He is also on the market with his wares.

David and Jacob and the Hiegenlich sisters live together in the same house, they are all gassed in Sobibor.

David's daughter Anna Rosa (1909) from his first marriage marries Sally Hes, son of pastor Hes. They go to live in Harlingen and have a daughter; all three die in Auschwitz.

Son Jacob or Jaap, from the second marriage of David van Gelder, was born in 1917. He was well spoiled with two fathers and two mothers. He survives the war:
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Joseph Israël Reinhold was born in Cologne in 1916. He comes to Borne in 1939 as one of the Palestine pioneers, young people who want to become skilled in practical professions to build a new community in Palestine. Most of them work on farms and many survive the war, probably because of their high organizational level. Joseph, who is a plumber by profession, opted for a position at Spanjaard in April 1940.

During the war, like Wolf Engländer, he lives with the Van Gelder brothers on the Grotestraat. In 1942 he is forced to leave for Amsterdam, where he marries Sara Vooranger six months later. In 1942 he is transported to a labor camp and he persists until January 1945. Sara also dies in the war.

N.B.
Joseph Reinhold survived the war. That was accidentally discovered by a letter from an estate. The letter came from the USA and was written in 1947 by Joseph Reinhold. In the letter he describes how he survived several camps.

This information has been confirmed by the Red Cross. They discovered his survival a few years ago when a son of his asked for more information about Joseph's then wife: Sara Vooranger.

Sara died in Auschwitz. Joseph died in 1994 - aged 77 - in Jefferson, Ohio.
The stone for Joseph Reinhold was removed in December 2015

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