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Finding Aid for the Alfred and Annalee Roegtten collection 2020.013.h.r
2020.013.h.r
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Contributing Institution:
Oskar Schindler Archives
Title: Alfred and Annalee Roegtten collection
source:
Roettgen, Anneliese, 1923-
Identifier/Call Number: 2020.013.h.r
Physical Description:
0.09 Linear Feet
Date (bulk): 1945-1980
Abstract: The Alfred and Annalee Roegtten collection contains documents, correspondence, printed material, and photographs. The content
is both original and reproduction. The bulk dates of this collection is 1941-1945. The collection documents Alfred and Annalee's
life during Nazi-occupied Netherlands.
Physical Location: This collection is small and it is sharing a box with another collection.
Language of Material:
English
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The Alfred and Annalee Roegtten collection date from 1940 to 2000s, the bulk dates from 1941-1945. This collection documents
their lives in Nazi-occupied Amsterdam. The collection is arranged into four series, which include documents, correspondence,
writings, and photographs.
This collection is open for research use.
There are no restrictions on the use of this material except where previously copyrighted material is concerned. It is the
responsibility of the research to obtain all permissions.
[Item title/description; Box number; folder number] Alfred and Annalee Roegtten collection (2020.013.h.r), Oskar Schindler
Archive, Chapman University, CA.
Alfred Roettgen was born on March 13, 1916, in Essen, Germany, into a mixed family. His mother was gentile, and his father
was Jewish. The family was not very religious, but Alfred did have a Bar Mitzvah. In 1933, the family received antisemitism
in their community and moved to Amsterdam, Netherlands. He worked for the Committee of Jewish Refugees as a runner delivering
letters. In 1942, he married his wife, Annalee.
Nazi Germany occupied the Netherlands in 1940; Alfred had to wear the yellow Jewish star since he had Jewish grandparents
on his father's side. He worked for the Jewish Council for Amsterdam, handing immigration for Jews of Foreign Nationality.
This position allowed him to move freely during the occupation, and it spared him and his wife many times from being deported.
However, his wife was sent to Westerbork transit camp in September 1944. During her imprisonment, he successfully changed
in identification to a full gentile by providing false documentation of a gentile father
In 1947, Alfred and Annalee emigrated to Brooklyn, New York, but shortly moved to Los Angeles, California. He worked as a
sausage maker in a packing house for two years and then opened his own small German sausage factory. When he retired, he and
Annalee moved to Palm Springs.
Annalee Priester/Anneliese Priester was born in Berlin, Germany, on January 7, 1923. She was 9-years old when her family
moved to Amsterdam. Annalee was 18-years old when Nazi Germany occupied the Netherlands. In 1942, two weeks after her brother
was sent to Mauthausen concentration camp, she married her husband, Alfred Roegtten. She worked with him at the Jewish Council
for Amsterdam as a telephone operator. A year later, she was separated from her husband and sent to Westerbork transit camp.
Her husband had documentation that he was a full gentile, and this prolonged Annalee from being deported. Unfortunately, her
parents were transported to the Auschwitz concentration camp. On April 12, 1945, the Canadian forces liberated Westerbork
transit camp, and Annalee reunited with her husband. In 1947, they emigrated to the United States and settled in California.
Subjects and Indexing Terms
Holocaust victims
Jewish women in the Holocaust
Holocaust survivors -- History -- 20th Century
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)
Jewish councils--Europe, Western--History--20th century
Westerbork (Concentration camp)
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) Netherlands
Roettgen, Alfred, 1916-2007
Roettgen, Anneliese, 1923-
Roettgen, Anneliese, 1923-