Ullman family papers

Frank Ullman (born Frans Leopold Ullmann, 1913-2009) was born in Cologne, Germany to Salomon Ullmann (“Saly,” d. 1956) and Annemarie Ullmann-Loeb (“Aennie,” née Loeb). He had one brother Fritz. Frank moved from Germany to Utrecht, Netherlands in 1932 and worked for the Dutch department store De Beijenkorf. He married Emily Konijn in 1936. In 1939 they moved to Amsterdam, and shortly after their first son, Leopold (“Leo”) was born.

Emily Ullman (“Lotje,” née Konijn, 1913-1990) was born in Amsterdam to Bertha Konijn-Prins (1880-1963) and Salomon Konijn. She had three siblings, Abraham, Margaret (later Margaret Warendorf Konijn, 1904-1968), and Juliemarthe (later Juliemarthe Jacobs-Konijn). Her father co-owned a diamond cutting business with his brother Soesman Konijn.

After the German occupation of the Netherlands in 1940, several of Frank and Emily’s relatives were able to immigrate to the United States, including Emily’s sister Juliemarthe and her husband Joost Jacobs, and Frank’s uncle Herbert Loeb and his wife Nellie and their two sons. In 1941 Frank lost his job at De Beijenkorf. In 1942 Jews in German-occupied Amsterdam began to get deported to concentration camps, and Frank and Emily decided to go into hiding. Through Piet Hoogenboom, a family friend, they obtained false identification papers for themselves, Frank’s parents, his grandmother Sibille Jumpertz-Loeb (“Oma Munchen-Mum,” d. 1943?), and Emily’s mother. Through Emily’s sorority (Arktos) sister Aleida Schot and the Dutch Reformed Church, they arranged for Leo to be placed with Hendrik and Jannigje Schimmel in an Amsterdam suburb by 1943. Facing an increasingly dangerous situation, the Schimmels helped get Leo to an orphanage in Amsterdam in March 1945. Frank, Emily, and Emily’s cousin Abraham Konijn hid with the Peyster family in their attic for the duration of the war.

After liberation, Emily and Frank were reunited with Leo, and they remained in Amsterdam. Their second son, Hank (born Hendrik Jan Ullmann, “Henk”) was born in 1946. Jeannette Kalker (later Jeanette Ringold, b. 1939), the daughter of Emily’s cousin Abraham’s sister Martha Frederika Konijn, moved in with the Ullmans after the war. Jeannette was also a hidden child and her parents perished at Auschwitz-Birkenau. In December 1947 the Ullmans immigrated to the United States via the MS Westerdam. They settled in Port Washington where Emily’s sister Juliemarthe and mother Bertha lived.

Leo graduated from Harvard College and Columbia University, and also served in the United States Marine Corps. He then went on to have a career in law and real estate. He is active with the Holocaust & Genocide Studies program at Stockton University.