Frank-Teeboom family
Victims and survivors
The information contained on this website concentrates on the Jewish people with roots in Mijdrecht, a town in The Netherlands which now is part of the municipality De Ronde Venen. It is not only a cold gathering of facts, but tells the stories of their lives. Often it ends in a horrible story because families ended their existence, being murdered during the Holocaust of the Second World War. For these people this site offers a place for remembrance, so they never will be forgotten. But some people successfully fled or hid from the Nazi regime. They are often difficult to trace because for a long time they lived in fear and were hiding their roots. However, the younger generations are in search again, so this site offers a place to reconnect their future with their family history.
Since 1805 the Jewish community in Mijdrecht has maintained a synagogue in the “Mennonietenbuurt”, neighborhood located at the river Amstel (see photo right, source: collection SOUD). It was shared with the Jewish community of Uithoorn, which caused the stories of the Jewish families in Mijdrecht to be inseparably connected with those of the families from Uithoorn. As of 1821 the synagogue was a subunit of the synagogue in Amsterdam. However, Jews also lived in the village center of Mijdrecht and their number grew so much, to about 60 persons in 1851, that due to the large distance a synagogue was established in the village center. This synagogue was part of the synagogue in Maarssen under Amersfoort, and was located at the present Kerkstraat.
From the beginning of the 20th century their number steadily decreased, partly due to aging, but mainly due to their concentration in the larger cities for economic reasons. At its sale in 1907 the synagogue was already in disuse. In the period from 1900 until 1930 the Jewish population decreased from 40 to 10 persons. According to the German occupier in 1941 the population consisted of only three “whole blood Jews”; the two Heijmans brothers and their sister, living at Hofland where they traded cattle and had a butchery. In September 1942 they were deported via Amsterdam and Westerbork to Sobibor, where they were murdered upon arrival.
Serlina Tokkie was a good friend of the Frank and Teeboom families in the US. She was a survivor of the war.
Fred is the grandfather of Robert 'Bobby' Franklin. His parents were Reuben E. Valley and Sarah Ann Trucker.
This site is still under construction.
