Sylvia Trompetter plays with a dog in the yard.
Overview
- Caption
- Sylvia Trompetter plays with a dog in the yard.
- Photographer
- Edward Owen, USHMM Artifact Photographer
- Date
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1944
- Locale
- The Netherlands
- Variant Locale
- Holland
- Photo Credit
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, courtesy of Marianne Dazzo
Rights & Restrictions
- Photo Source
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United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
Copyright: United States Holocaust Memorial MuseumProvenance: Marianne DazzoSource Record ID: Collections: 1993.4.9Second Record ID: Collections: 2005.71
Keywords & Subjects
- Photo Designation
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RESCUERS & RESCUED -- Netherlands
Administrative Notes
- Artifact Geography
- Washington, DC United States
- Biography
- Marianne Dazzo (born Marianne Trompetter) is the daughter of Maurits Trompetter and Femma Trompetter Worms. She was born on January 18, 1935 in Amsterdam where her family had lived since the early 17th century. Her father was a diamond cutter, and prior to her marriage, her mother had been a hat maker. The family lived in a Jewish neighborhood but was not religiously observant. Shortly after their marriage, Maurits and Femma came to the United States to visit relatives and ended up staying for three years. They returned in 1934, one year prior to Marianne’s birth. Her younger sister Sylvia (now Frydman) was born on March 1, 1940, just a few months prior to the Nazi invasion of the Netherlands. For the first two years following the invasion, the Trompetters were allowed to remain in their apartment. However, as of April 29, 1942, the Trompetters along with all Dutch Jews were required to wear a yellow star. Sometime [probably spring of 1943], Dutch police arrested Maurits and sent him to the Vught transit camp. Eleven months later, he was deported to Auschwitz where he was sent to work in the I.G. Farben plant in Buna. However, because he was fluent in English, he also served as a translator for British and American POWs. In return, the POWs often shared their rations with him; a fact that probably saved his life. A few months after Maurits’ original arrest, Dutch police rounded up Femma and the two girls, probably in September 1943. They were taken to Schouwburg, the Jewish concert hall now serving as an assembly point, to await deportation to concentration camp. Marianne was taken across the street to the Creche where the other children who had been rounded-up were being held. Soon after she arrived, Marianne contracted scarlet fever and was sent to the Jewish hospital. Her mother and sister were permitted to remain in Schouwburg until Marianne recovered. While waiting for Marianne, Femma helped other detainees escape from the theater. One day, the Dutch police raided the hospital. Marianne quickly got dressed and walked out of the building before she could be arrested and made her way to her grandmother’s home. Her grandmother had friends who put her in touch with Joop Woortman’s NV network. Woortman, a Dutch rescuer who later was deported and perished in Bergen-Belsen, found hiding places for as many as two hundred Jewish children. Woortman also found separate hiding places for Marianne’s mother and sister. Over the next two years, Marianne stayed in eight different places in Limburg provence in southern Holland. Her mother hid with a family in Hilversum. Soon after liberation she learned where Marianne was staying and came to see her by bicycle. After a brief reunion, she brought Marianne to her brother-in-law, Gerrit Trompetter, in Tilburg and left to find her younger daughter who had been hidden in Brunssum with the Koster family. One day, the rabbi of Tilburg met a group of concentration camp survivors at the train station. The group included two Jews with the last name of Trompetter. The rabbi then called Gerrit and asked if he wanted to come to dinner and meet these new arrivals with the same last name. That evening Marianne reunited with her father and her uncle Joel. They had been sent on a death march from Auschwitz and were liberated in Ebensee. Soon the entire family reunited. They immigrated to the United States in 1949 and her father resumed work as a diamond cutter. Maurits Trompetter was originally one of eight children. Two of his brothers, his three sisters and his parents all perished. Femma’s parents and both of her siblings also perished in the Holocaust.
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- 2008-07-02 00:00:00
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