Grietje van der Kar-Posno was born in Rotterdam on December 9, 1911. She was Jewish, the daughter of Heintje Snoek-Canes and David van der Kar
holocaust.victims: Grietje van der Kar-Posno was born in Rotterdam on December 9, 1911. She was Jewish, the daughter of Heintje Snoek-Canes and David van der Kar. Her father died when she was a small child. She had six siblings and was married to Marinus Arie Posno. Grietje had six children with her husband. Marinus sadly died in 1940. Their children were Marinus Johannes Cornelis (1933), Hendrika (1934), Cornelia (1936), David (1937), Arie (1939) and daughter Matje (1940). Grietje was a single mother of six, which at the time was extremely difficult and the family lived poorly. Cornelia and Hendrika were removed from their mother’s care in 1941 and sent to live in a Jewish medical institution in Apeloorn. On January 21, 1943, the Nazis chased more than a thousand patients out of their beds and sent them on cattle cars to Auschwitz, including Grietje’s two small children. Hendrika and Cornelia were killed in Auschwitz on January 25, at ages seven and eight. Meanwhile, Grietj...
