Barend Engelander, a journalist, lived here with his wife Ilse Engelander-van der Velde and their children Ingeborg (1932) and the twins René and Ariane, who were born in Rotterdam on 31 March 1939. Ilse and the three children were murdered in Auschwitz on 24 September 1942. René and Ariane were three years old. Barend was murdered in Auschwitz on 31 January 1943.