Goldchen Lewertoff was born on 18 April 1854 in Lübeck in Germany. She married merchant Hartog Stoppelman in May 1896 in Delfzijl near Groningen in The Netherlands. Hartog was born on 1 April 1863 in nearby Nieuwe Pekela. His parents were merchant Arond Stopplman (1827-1891) and his wife Hendrijetta Meiberg (1828-1905).
In the spring of 1908 Hartog and Goldchen left Lübeck for Rotterdam in Holland. Early 1909, however, Goldchen left for Hamburg in Germany. Soon thereafter Hartog left for Sneek in the North of The Netherlands. On May 19th, he was sentenced to 14 days of imprisonment. By August Hartog was back in Rotterdam.
Hartog's sister Hendeltje Stoppelman (1844-1914) had married Israël van Coeverden. Their daughter Roosje was born on 6 April 1876 in Coevorden and gave birth in Rotterdam on 15 June 1899 to an illegitimate daughter named Heintje. Heintje lived for a while with her great-uncle Hartog in Rotterdam.
With his wife staying in Germany, Hartog Stoppelman decided to file for a divorce. It was approved by the court in Rotterdam on 15 October 1917. The divorce was registered on 22 March 1918 in The Hague.
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On 12 July 1922 in Rotterdam Hertog Stoppelman, aged 59, finally remarried. His bride was 43-year-old Hester van Blankestein. She was born on 31 October 1862 in IJsselmonde, south of Rotterdam. Her parents are Barend van Blankestein (1831-1893) and Chonetta van de Waal (1837-1906).
At the age of 42, on 8 November 1911 in Rotterdam, Hester had married 52-year-old Jacob Schustirowitz. Jacob was widower of Rosa Galoen (1863-1910) whom he had married in 1884 in Groningen. He was born on 9 July 1859 in Sebastopol in Russia as son of Izaak Schustirowitz and Anna Macen. Jacob had died on 5 June 1918 in Rotterdam, aged 58.
At the age of 72, Hertog Stoppelman died in Rotterdam on 27 June 1935. His widow, Hester van Blankenstein, died around 15 October 1942 in Auschwitz concentration camp in Poland. Her death was finally registered in Rotterdam in 1951.
Sources: WieWasWie.nl, StadsArchief.Rotterdam.nl, Delpher.nl, en.Wikipedia.org.
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