Lenke Rothman (1929 - 2008)

Born 28 Mar 1929 in Kiskunfélegyháza, Hungary

Died 27 Nov 2008 at age 79 in Lidingö, Stockholms län (AB), Sweden

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Biografi

Lenke Rothman survived persecution during the Holocaust.

Lenke Rothman lived in Sweden

Svensk konstnär, skulptör och författare

• Lenke Rothman föddes 1929 i Ungern i en judisk hantverkarfamilj. Föräldrarna var Jenö och Sarolta Rothman, paraplymakare/reparatör och lärare, mamman damfrisör.
• Hon hade sju syskon när hon, syskonen och modern deporterades till Auschwitz i Polen.
• Lenke och Alexander avskiljdes som arbetsföra, de övriga mördades i gaskamrarna.
• Fadern hade redan tidigare "värvats" som "arbetssoldat" av nazisterna, mördades i Wels-lägret, ett underläger till Mauthausen-lägret. ^[1] .
• Hon flyttades till Bergen-Belsen, där hon befriades och kom med Röda Korstransport till Malmö 1945.
• 1947 kom också Alexander till Sverige.
• 1959 (eller 1960) gifte hon sig med Sivar Arnér (1909-1997).
• De fick sonen Elias (något Lenke Rothman själv beskrev som ”undret inträffade, han kom att med sin person påminna mig om livet, allt det jag glömt.”). ^[2]

Biography

Swedish artist, painter, and writer.

• Lenke Rothman was born in 1929 in Hungary into a Jewish family of craftsmen. *Her parents were Jenö and Sarolta Rothman, an umbrella maker/repairer and teacher, her mother a hairdresser.
• She had seven siblings when she, her siblings and her mother were deported to Auschwitz in Poland.
• Lenke and Alexander were separated as able-bodied, the others were murdered in the gas chambers.
• Her father had already been 'conscripted' as a 'labor soldier' by the Nazis and was murdered in the Wels camp, a sub-camp of the Mauthausen camp. [1] .
• She was moved to Bergen-Belsen, where she was liberated and transported by Red Cross to Malmö in 1945.
• In 1947 Alexander also came to Sweden.
• In 1959 (or 1960) she married Sivar Arnér (1909-1997).

(via Deepl translate; all but the final bullet point with a quote from Lenke regarding her son is translated from above. (the auto-translation did not make much sense/convey the meaning of her quote Weatherall-96 16:54, 16 June 2024 (UTC))

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Sources

1. ↑ Wels at Wikipedia, in English
2. ↑ Lenke Rothman, www.skbl.se/sv/artikel/LenkeRothman, Svenskt kvinnobiografiskt lexikon (artikel av Magnus Jensner)] läst/hämtad 2021-08-21.

See also:

• Lenke Rothman at Wikipedia, in Swedish
• Elias Arnér at Wikipedia, in English, read Eriksson-1141 07:40, 21 August 2021 (UTC)