#typo surname: Gerson not Gerzon
survivor:
https://www.joodsmonument.nl/en/page/466175/ernst-gerson
"Ernst Gerson’s family and his family became victims of increasing aggression, intimidation and violence in the 1930s. Ernst was arrested and imprisoned several times on unclear suspicions.
During the Kritallnacht of 9/10 November 1938, the home of Ernst’s parents became the target of anti-Jewish aggression and violence. At that time he had already made a decision to go to the Netherlands in mid-May 1938 to a sister, Bertha, of his wife in Zwolle. As a result, the German government took away his German citizenship!
He was followed in 1939 by his wife Sara Julia, daughter Ursula and his parents-in-law Lippers and uncle Hugo. They went to the same Bertha, married to a Jewish Dutchman: Siegfried de Groot from Zwolle
The Gerson family then moved to Hattem at the end of 1939. At the time, Ursula attended the public primary school a/d Dorpsweg in Hattem. (There must still be a list of grades available somewhere!)
In 1939, the same brother-in-law from Zwolle, Siegfried de Groot, started building a villa at 1 van Heemstralaan in Hattem. Due to the outbreak of the war, the first stone was not laid until January 1941 by both children of Siegfied and Bertha. However, construction progressed slowly.
The Gerson family then found shelter with the Berends family near the Molecaten estate.
In September 1942 they were given another shelter on the Molecaten estate of Baron W. van Heeckeren van Molecaten. Several Jews were hiding in different places on this estate!.
Ernst’s parents-in-law, Isidor and Martha Lippers-Stehberg and uncle Hugo also found a hiding place in this shelter.
In the general police magazine of 17 Sept 1942 there is already a call from the mayor of Hattem for the arrest, investigation and arraignment of the Gerson family. It was reported that they had left their place of residence without the required permits!
Once again on February 25, 1943, the arrest of all members of the Gerson family and the in-laws was requested!
At the beginning of September 1944, the Gerson family and the 14-year-old Jewish boy Georg Cohn, who was also in hiding with them, were transported to Auschwitz after being betrayed via Westerbork on 3 September! Coincidentally the same train as Anne Frank!
Sara Julia Gerson-Lippers and daughter Ursula, sister Bertha, brother-in-law Siegfried and children, her parents and uncle Hugo as well as Georg Cohn did not survive the war!
Ernst and his brother’s parents also did not survive the war in Germany and were murdered in the extermination camps!
Ernst Gerson himself miraculously survived the war after a few concentration camps and returned to Hattem after the war and started again in the textile trade!"
(The daughter of Baron W. van Heeckeren van Molecaten is a very good friend of mine. Her mother still gets visitors who want to see the hiding places on their estate)
More on the fate of his relatives:
https://map.stolpersteine.app/nl/hattem/locaties/burgemeester-van-heemstralaan-1
His parents and brother Kurt Gerson:
Other relatives:
