20 Years
Anselm Adolph Friedländer was born on 19 July 1920 in Hamburg. At 18 years of age, he flees Nazi Germany in early November 1938 and goes straight to Wieringermeer. In the Werkdorp he works as an apprentice electrician. He leaves the Werkdorp at the beginning of 1940.
He came to live with the Dingfelder family at 2 Tintoretto Street. After five months he moved to the Lehmann family on Euterpestraat (now Gerrit van der Veenstraat) in Amsterdam.
A year later he was arrested. He belonged to the June group, the work thieves who were rounded up during the second major razzia in Amsterdam on 11 June 1941 and deported to Mauthausen via Schoorl camp in a group of 300 Jews. There they had to perform forced labour in stone quarries and/or undergo medical experiments. Anselm was killed there immediately upon arrival, on 25 June 1941.
His parents emigrated to England where his father died in 1953, the fate of his mother is unknown.
Biography
Family
Son of
- Hedwig Gertrud Friedländer-Roth * 28-01-1888 in Breslau † unknown and
- Ludwig Friedländer * 02-07-1877 in Hamburg † 1953 in England
Last address
Hamburg, Werderstrasse 46
Last known residences in The Netherlands
- 05-11-1938
Werkdorp Wieringen, Nieuwesluizerweg 42, Slootdorp (Wieringen) - 02-01-1940
Amsterdam, Tintorettostraat 2-II (fam. Nathusius) - 04-06-1940
Amsterdam, Euterpestraat 71-hs (fam. Cahn) - 11-06-1941
Arrested at the second raid in Amsterdam and deported to Durchgangslager Schoorl - 22-06-1941
Deportation to Mauthausen