Family tree Coster » Pietje Mendels (1885-1942)

Personal data Pietje Mendels 


Household of Pietje Mendels

She is married to Benjamin Bloemendaal.

They got married.


Child(ren):

  2. Saartje Bloemendaal  1905-1943
  3. Mozes Bloemendaal  1909-1945 
  4. Hartog Bloemendaal  1919-1944
  6. Louis Bloemendaal  1922-1942


Notes about Pietje Mendels

Pietje Bloemendal-Mendels wordt op 6 maart 1885 geboren in Lemsterland. Zij is de oudste dochter van Salomon Mendels (18 maart 1859, Lemmer) en Annechien Frank (28 oktober 1859, Meppel).
Na haar geboorte verhuist het gezin op 26 mei 1885 naar Amsterdam. Pietje heeft één jongere zuster Marianna (zie Marianna Roosnek-Mendels) die de oorlog niet overleeft. Ook twee van haar broers, Hartog (geb. 1890) en Emanuel (geb. 1891) komen om in Auschwitz.
Pietje trouwt op 10 augustus 1904 ten stadhuize van Amsterdam met Benjamin Bloemendal (08 augustus 1884, Groningen).Benjamin is pianist en speelt in café's.
Samen krijgen zij zeven kinderen. Allen worden geboren in Amsterdam. Serah (17 oktober 1905 ), Mozes (5 oktober 1909), Betje (1 juli 1916), Hartog (25 juni 1919), Marianne (22 januari 1920), Louis (2 mei 1922) en Francina (5 september 1923).
Het gezin Bloemendal is erg arm. Zij verhuizen ongeveer ieder jaar. De zeven kinderen worden ieder op een ander adres geboren.Benjamin sterft op 8 januari 1932 in Amsterdam. Pietje wordt dan depressief en suicidaal. De kinderen , voor zover nog thuis, gaan naar het joodse weeshuis.
Pietje gaat begin januari 1943 naar Gorinchem samen met haar dochter Marianne en duikt daar onder bij haar gemengd gehuwde dochter Betje. Daar worden zij verraden en opgepakt. Via Westerbork gaan zij naar Auschwitz en worden daar op 27 augustus direct na aankomst vergast.

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Historical events

Birthday March 6, 1885

  • The temperature on March 6, 1885 was about 5.8 °C. There was 0.8 mm of rain. The air pressure was 4 kgf/m2 and came mainly from the north-northeast. The airpressure was 74 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 81%. Source: KNMI
  • Koning Willem III (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from 1849 till 1890 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Koninkrijk der Nederlanden)
  • In The Netherlands , there was from April 23, 1884 to April 21, 1888 the cabinet Heemskerk, with Mr. J. Heemskerk Azn. (conservatief) as prime minister.
  • In the year 1885: Source: Wikipedia
    • The Netherlands had about 4.5 million citizens.
    • January 26 » Troops loyal to The Mahdi conquer Khartoum, killing the Governor-General Charles George Gordon.
    • April 30 » Governor of New York David B. Hill signs legislation creating the Niagara Reservation, New York's first state park, ensuring that Niagara Falls will not be devoted solely to industrial and commercial use.
    • June 3 » In the last military engagement fought on Canadian soil, the Cree leader, Big Bear, escapes the North-West Mounted Police.
    • September 29 » The first practical public electric tramway in the world is opened in Blackpool, England.
    • October 13 » The Georgia Institute of Technology is founded in Atlanta, Georgia.
    • November 17 » Serbo-Bulgarian War: The decisive Battle of Slivnitsa begins.

Day of death August 27, 1942

  • The temperature on August 27, 1942 was between 15.7 °C and 29.2 °C and averaged 22.6 °C. There was 12.6 hours of sunshine (90%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the east-southeast. Source: KNMI
  • Koningin Wilhelmina (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from 1890 till 1948 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Koninkrijk der Nederlanden)
  • In The Netherlands , there was from July 27, 1941 to February 23, 1945 the cabinet Gerbrandy II, with Prof. dr. P.S. Gerbrandy (ARP) as prime minister.
  • In the year 1942: Source: Wikipedia
    • The Netherlands had about 9.0 million citizens.
    • February 8 » World War II: Dutch Colonial Army General Destruction Unit (AVC, Algemene Vernielings Corps) burns Banjarmasin, South Borneo to avoid Japanese capture.
    • March 12 » The Battle of Java ends with the surrender of the American-British-Dutch-Australian Command to the Japanese Empire in Bandung, West Java, Dutch East Indies.
    • March 26 » World War II: The first female prisoners arrive at Auschwitz concentration camp in German-occupied Poland.
    • April 26 » Benxihu Colliery accident in Manchukuo leaves 1549 Chinese miners dead.
    • August 13 » Major General Eugene Reybold of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers authorizes the construction of facilities that would house the "Development of Substitute Materials" project, better known as the Manhattan Project.
    • December 10 » World War II: Government of Poland in exile send Raczyński's Note (the first official report on the Holocaust) to 26 governments who signed the Declaration by United Nations.


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