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A family portrait at the wedding of Ephraim Izaak Levie (Eil) Rosenbaum and Johanna Frederika Suzanna (Jo) Zion taken in the garden of the of the Zion family in Eibergen.

Photograph | Photograph Number: 66119
A family portrait at the wedding of Ephraim Izaak Levie (Eil) Rosenbaum and Johanna Frederika Suzanna (Jo) Zion taken in the garden of the of the Zion family in Eibergen. Foreground: from left to right: Frederika Hoogstraal (cousin of the bride), Henry Donald (Hans) Mogendorff (cousin of the bride). First row: from left to right: Lea Rosenbaum (aunt of the groom), Izak Rosenbaum (father of the groom), Bertha Rosenbaum-Levie (mother of the groom), Ephraim Izaak Levie (EIL) Rosenbaum, (groom, owner of the ex-libris), Johanna Frederika Suzanna (Jo) Zion (bride), Frieda Zion (young girl sitting on the arm, youngest sister of the bride), Wilhelmina Esther (Mien) Zion (sister of the bride), Betje Zion-Gans (mother of the bride), her husband Migels Zion, who also was named Manuel Zion passed away in 1937, Toni Zion-Buschoff (aunt of the bride), Izak Zion (uncle of the bride, parents of aunt Erna de Jong Zion). Standing first row: from left to right: Louis Blom (uncle of the bride from Uithoorn), Leo Menco (friend Zion family, living in Eibergen), Elise Zion-Jakubovsky (aunt of the bride), Amalia Blom-Gans (aunt of the bride, Uithoorn), Hona Zion (uncle of the bride), Heiman (Hein) Mogendorff (uncle of the bride), Suze de Zoete-Gans (aunt of the bride), Esther Cohen-Zion (aunt of the bride) and her husband Zadok Cohen, Brunette (Netje) van der Sluis-Rosenbaum (aunt groom, Zwolle), Hartog van der Sluis (Netje's husband), Rieka Levie-Boekbinder (EIL's aunt), Julius Jacob (Juul) Zion (eldest brother bride), Dr. Betty Levie (cousin EIL), Dr. Roos Weinbergen (friend of the Rosenbaums). Standing last row: from left to right: Frederika Blom (cousin bride), Salomon Isaac (Sallie) Zion (brother bride), Erna de Jong-Zion (cousin bride), and her huband Bernard de Jong, Debora Mogendorff-Gans (aunt bride), Zadok Joseph (Dok) Zion, (brother bride), Alida Blom (cousin bride), Arnold de Zoete (cousin bride). Of these, the only ones who survived the Holocaust are Frieda Zion and Wilhelmina Esther (Mien) Zion, Amalia Blom-Gans , Brunette (Netje) van der Sluis-Rosenbaum, Hartog van der Sluis, Dr. Betty Levie, Dr. Roos Weinbergen, Frederika Blom, Salomon Isaac (Sallie) Zion, Erna de Jong-Zion, and her huband Bernard de Jong, Zadok Joseph (Dok) Zion,, and Alida Blom.

A family portrait at the wedding of Ephraim Izaak Levie (Eil) Rosenbaum and Johanna Frederika Suzanna (Jo) Zion taken in the garden of the of the Zion family in Eibergen.

Foreground: from left to right: Frederika Hoogstraal (cousin of the bride), Henry Donald (Hans) Mogendorff (cousin of the bride).

First row: from left to right: Lea Rosenbaum (aunt of the groom), Izak Rosenbaum (father of the groom), Bertha Rosenbaum-Levie (mother of the groom), Ephraim Izaak Levie (EIL) Rosenbaum, (groom, owner of the ex-libris), Johanna Frederika Suzanna (Jo) Zion (bride), Frieda Zion (young girl sitting on the arm, youngest sister of the bride), Wilhelmina Esther (Mien) Zion (sister of the bride), Betje Zion-Gans (mother of the bride), her husband Migels Zion, who also was named Manuel Zion passed away in 1937, Toni Zion-Buschoff (aunt of the bride), Izak Zion (uncle of the bride, parents of aunt Erna de Jong Zion).

Standing first row: from left to right: Louis Blom (uncle of the bride from Uithoorn), Leo Menco (friend Zion family, living in Eibergen), Elise Zion-Jakubovsky (aunt of the bride), Amalia Blom-Gans (aunt of the bride, Uithoorn), Hona Zion (uncle of the bride), Heiman (Hein) Mogendorff (uncle of the bride), Suze de Zoete-Gans (aunt of the bride), Esther Cohen-Zion (aunt of the bride) and her husband Zadok Cohen, Brunette (Netje) van der Sluis-Rosenbaum (aunt groom, Zwolle), Hartog van der Sluis (Netje's husband), Rieka Levie-Boekbinder (EIL's aunt), Julius Jacob (Juul) Zion (eldest brother bride), Dr. Betty Levie (cousin EIL), Dr. Roos Weinbergen (friend of the Rosenbaums).

Standing last row: from left to right: Frederika Blom (cousin bride), Salomon Isaac (Sallie) Zion (brother bride), Erna de Jong-Zion (cousin bride), and her huband Bernard de Jong, Debora Mogendorff-Gans (aunt bride), Zadok Joseph (Dok) Zion, (brother bride), Alida Blom (cousin bride), Arnold de Zoete (cousin bride).

Of these, the only ones who survived the Holocaust are Frieda Zion and Wilhelmina Esther (Mien) Zion, Amalia Blom-Gans , Brunette (Netje) van der Sluis-Rosenbaum, Hartog van der Sluis, Dr. Betty Levie, Dr. Roos Weinbergen, Frederika Blom, Salomon Isaac (Sallie) Zion, Erna de Jong-Zion, and her huband Bernard de Jong, Zadok Joseph (Dok) Zion,, and Alida Blom.

Date
1940 August 19
Locale
Eibergen, [Gelderland] The Netherlands
Photo Designation
INVASION & OCCUPATION -- The Netherlands -- JEWS -- Daily Life/Families
Photo Credit
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, courtesy of Betty Kazin-Rosenbaum

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Biography
Betty Kazin (born Betty Rosenbaum) is the daughter of Ephraim Izaak Levie (Eil) Rosenbaum (b. June 7, 1913 in Rhooden) and Johanna (Jo) Frederika Suzanna Zion (b. Feb, 20, 1914 in Eibergen). Her parents married on August 19, 1940 in Eibergen. Betty was born on August 7, 1941 in Amsterdam at the Portuguese Israelite Hospital (PIZ). She had one brother Izaak Michel Max (b. January 19, 1943). Betty's father worked in the Rembrandt pharmacy located near the Portuguese synagogue in the old Amsterdam ghetto, one block from their house at the corner of Nieuwe Heerengracht and the Amstel River.

Jo had Christian friends who came to Amsterdam and suggested that the Rosenbaum family go into hiding. However, the Judenrat (Jewish Council) demanded Eil to continue working in the pharmacy since many medical professionals had already left. He felt obliged to remain, and told his friends that as long as Jews remained in the ghetto he had to provide them with medication. After the birth of Maxje he sent his wife and children to her family in the east of Holland., The secretary of the Eibergen municipality, Jan Willem Hageman, issued a false identification card for Betty registering her as Elizabeth Cornelia Andriessen (b. August 17, 1941 in Ghent, Belgium). He and his wife Bertha Hageman also agreed to hide Betty in their home. They had two children and belonged to a small religious Protestant Reform Church. Many of its members were active in the underground resistance. They prayed three times a day at home. Betty arrived in their house in 1943 and remained there for the duration of the war and was treated like their own daughter.

Her mother and baby brother were hidden in another village, Neede with the fiancé of her mother's sister Wilhelmina Esther (Mink) Cosman Zion. Unfortunately, they were betrayed by a local Dutch collaborator who received a bounty for their capture. Johanna's brother Julius escaped from this address and later reported this event to the authorities. A non-Jewish friend offered to take the baby, but the constable prevented that saying he arrested three individuals and was obliged to deliver them. Since the Germans could not locate Betty, they sent her mother, brother and aunt's fiance to the punishment barracks in Westerbork. From there they were deported to Sobibor where they were killed on arrival (April 2, 1943). On her way to Sobibor, Johanna managed to send a last letter to Betty. As Betty's father used alcohol to prepare medication, he was rounded up in Amsterdam and deported via Vught and Westerbork to Sobibor where he perished (April 23, 1943). He also mailed a last note. As far as we know, Johanna and Eil did not see each other again.

As an active member of the resistance movement, Mr. Hageman was executed by the Germans on D-Day (6.6.1944) and later was buried at the honorary Overveen cemetery (Bloemendaal). Betty remained with her adoptive mother ("moeder Hageman") even after liberation of Eibergen by the Canadian army. After the war, her aunt, Prof. Dr. Betty Levie, requested to take her to Palestine, but the Zion family wanted her to stay in Eibergen. The Amsterdam Court of Justice determined that Betty should live with the eldest Zion brother, Julius Jaacob Zion. After his wedding to Nora Zion de Jong, she moved into their house in October 1946. She continued to visit her adoptive mother who lived in the same street, renamed J.W. Hagemanstraat, after Mr. Hageman.

Already using three last names, Andriessen-Hageman-Zion, Betty only learned that her real last name was Rosenbaum once she entered first grade. She later joined the Bnei Akiva youth movement and worked at the Israeli Embassy in The Hague. In 1964 she immigrated to Israel, married and is the mother of four children and the grandmother of five grandchildren.

In 2001 Yad Vashem recognized Jan and Bertha Hageman as Righteous Among the nations. In addition to her parents and little brother, Betty's maternal grandmother, Betje Zion Gans, and paternal grandparents Izaak and Bertha Rosenbaum-Levie all perished in Sobibor.

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United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
Copyright: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
Provenance: Betty Kazin-Rosenbaum
 
Record last modified: 2015-02-10 00:00:00
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