Fanny Kelah Bloemendal, née Neustadt was born in Hamburg on April 29, 1879. Her parents were Moritz Neustadt and Klara, née Goldstein. [Her mother was born in Bad Kissingen in 1844 and came from the widely branched Goldstein family. Fanny was the cousin of Otto Goldstein and Joseph Kauders.]

After her marriage to Siegfried Bloemendal, Fanny first lived in Ober-Ingelheim, where her son Manfred was born.

In 1910, the young family moved to Bad Kissingen. Fanny Bloemendal didn’t have a job but was a housewife and cared for the apartment in Grabengasse 8. In 1912, she gave birth to her second son Josef. Twenty years later, in 1931, the family moved to an apartment in Theresienstrasse 5 (now 10).

In November 1933, Fanny Bloemendal and her family had to flee from the Nazis to the Netherlands, her husband’s home country. There she lived in Arnheim in Driekoningenwarsstraat 87. After the Germany army had invaded Holland, Fanny Bloemendal was taken to Weesterbork Camp, sort of a collective camp. From there she was deported into Auschwitz Concentration Camp in 1943, where she died on September 10, 1943 at the age of 64.

Her two sisters also became victims of Nazi-tyranny: Sophia took her own life in Hamburg in July 1940 and Olga was murdered in Sobibor in 1943.

(Andreas Reuter, slightly expanded)