Dorpstraat 77

Friedrich Adler was a 28 -year -old German Jewish refugee who, in order to flee the circumstances that become increasingly difficult for Jews in Germany, settled in Dordrecht in 1938. Here he opened a specialist store in men's clothing. Let his father, mother and brother also came to the Netherlands for a year. At the beginning of 1940 his parents and brother decided to emigrate. However, Friedrich could not get a visa. He was left alone.

In May 1940 the war reached the Netherlands and life for Jews here also became increasingly difficult. As a result, Friedrich was forced to close his home. He moves to Gorinchem where he moved into an apartment under that of the Meijer-Den Hartog family. Through this family he came into contact with Mrs. Hartog's sister, Elisabeth Hartog. The 23 -year -old Elisabeth worked and lived as a nurse on the Jewish psychiatric institution "Het Apeldoornsche Bosch" in Apeldoorn. She visited her sister regularly and somewhere with these visits she came in contact with Friedrich.

Elisabeth and Friedrich in love and married. From the end of 1942, Elisabeth and Friedrich disappear from the official registers. They were probably in hiding then.

After a journey through various hiding place, the couple arrived in February 1944 with the factory worker Johann Theodor Baetsen and his wife Jacoba Catharina Janssen at Dorpstraat 75 in Heythuysen. This through the mediation of the resistance fighter Jo Theelen from Baexem.
The Baetsen family had more people in hiding, including allied pilots in the house.

Things went wrong on 10 June 1944. Four Amsterdam detectives, so -called Jews hunters, invaded the Baetsen family. They were betrayed. The Adler couple were found on the upper floor.

Initially, Johann Baetsen would also be arrested, but "because of the great poverty and the plea of his wife," one of the investigators after the war said, was abandoned. The detainees were later taken on walking and under the supervision of the detectives to the station in Baexem from where they were transported by train to prison in Amsterdam. From here the Adler couple went to camp Westerbork.

The Adler couple was taken from Westerbork to the Theresienstadt concentration camp after six weeks, and from there Friedrich went on transport to the Auschwitz concentration camp on 28 September 1944, followed by his wife on October 1, 1944.

In the fall of 1944, Friedrich went from Auschwitz to Dachau concentration camp with a group of prisoners. In December 1944 a large typhoid epidemic was going on in Dachau; Friedrich most likely died of this on December 15, 1944. Elisabeth's precise death date is unknown. It may be assumed that she was still alive when the liberation of Auschwitz was approaching in January 1945. She probably took along on one of the death marches and died somewhere along the way, since she was no longer registered in the camp of arrival.

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