Boticellistraat 12

Arthur Frankfurther lived at this address Hanna and Werner-Ludolf Grünbaum to come to the Netherlands, but who himself had already left when they finally ended up in this house.

Arthur Frankfurther, born in Breslau in 1894, son of a Polish father and a Dutch mother, came to the Netherlands as a 21-year-old bank clerk in 1916, according to the Amsterdam Aliens Register. But he probably lived there before. He received Dutch nationality in 1918. Over the years he climbed within the banking world. When he lived here he was director of the Amsterdamsche Credietmaatschappij. Arthur married the German Erika Brandt in 1931. They had one son, Paul Arthur Frankfurther, born in 1932.

In 1939 Arthur and Erika succeed in bringing Erika to Amsterdam in the mother and grandmother. Erika's mother was Elsa Brandt-Schiff, born in Kassel in 1891 and her grandmother was Regina Deborah Schiff-Japhet, born in Kassel in 1861. Both came to live in the Botticellistraat with the Frankfurther family. At the beginning of 1940, Arthur and Erika Frankfurther with son Paul, however, left for Medan in the Dutch East Indies. The women are left in the Botticellistraat. Elsa died in November 1941 59, perhaps she was already sick and therefore they could not go to India. In 1942, a 45-year-old cousin, Frans Schiff, director of a linoleum factory, came to the 80-year-old Regina. He was married, but was probably not allowed to live in his villa in Zandvoort as a Jew. His wife stayed there.

At the beginning of 1939, Hanna and Werner-Ludolf Grünbaum from Eisenach arrived with a children's transport in the Netherlands, response to 15 and 15 years old. Arthur Frankfurther had invited them. The Grünbaums were related to Erika Brandt. The idea was that their parents would also happen to and that they would emigrate together to the US. But that didn't work at all. Their father owned a chemical factory in Eisenach. When the children left, he was in Buchenwald concentration camp. The mother was still free but did not come to the Netherlands.
Like all children who came to the Netherlands with children's transports, Hanna and Werner-Ludolf from the Dutch government were not allowed to live with private individuals, not even if those family were. They first stayed on the quarantine site in Rotterdam and then in various homes. Hanna worked there as a household help. Werner ended up in the Werkdorp Wieringen at some point. After the elevation of the Werkdorp in the summer of 1941, he came to live with Regina Schiff-Japhet, Hanna was a little earlier. The Frankfurther family was already gone then.

Hanna and Werner Grünbaum received a call for work in Germany in July 1942. That was the first batch of calling, one of which also arrived at Anne Frank's sister Margot. For the Frank family that was the time to go into hiding, but Hanna and Werner had no adults who arranged that for them. They reported at Central Station with their backpacks for the train to Westerbork. From there they went 'on transport' on July 15, 1942 with the very first train that left Hooghalen, near Westerbork, to Auschwitz. Both were murdered there on September 30, 1942. Their parents were deported to Belzyce in Poland on 10 May 1942 and died there.

Regina stayed behind with her cousin Frans until she was removed from home in March 1943. In November 1943 she was deported from Westerbork to Auschwitz and murdered there on arrival.
The house was offered for rent in June 1943. Frans Schiff remained registered there, so he will probably have gone into hiding, those who are in hiding did not report neatly to the population register and therefore just remained registered. In August 1944, Frans ended up in the criminal barrack of Westerbork. He must have been very lucky, because he was not deported but released on April 12, 1945 in Westerbork.
After the liberation, Frans Schiff was again registered at his old address in Zandvoort where he died in 1972. His wife and he had no children.

After the war, the Frankfurther family returned to the Netherlands, in India they had been interned. However, they no longer came to live in the Botticellistraat.

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