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'''Rozette Lopes-Dias Van Thyn''' (September 19, 1921 – June 27, 2010), known as '''Rose Van Thyn''', was a survivor of the [[Auschwitz concentration camp]] during [[World War II]] in [[Poland]]. She became a naturalized [[United States citizen]] residing in [[Shreveport, Louisiana|Shreveport]], [[Louisiana]]. In addtion to raising a familly and working as a professional seamstress, she was active for forty years as a [[Holocaust]] educator.<ref name="honor">{{Cite news|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/13098934/|title=Group to Honor Community Leaders|last=Haag|first=Diane|date=17 February 2003|work=The Times|access-date=14 August 2017|archive-url=|archive-date=|dead-url=|page=5B|via=Newspapers.com}}</ref> She spoke to thousands of children in Shreveport and as an academic fellow to college students about her experiences during the Holocaust.<ref name=":1">{{Cite news|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/13098614/|title=Holocaust Survivor Rose Van Thyn Dies|last=Pierson|first=Drew|date=28 June 2010|work=The Times|access-date=14 August 2017|archive-url=|archive-date=|dead-url=|via=Newspapers.com}}</ref>
'''Rozette Lopes-Dias Van Thyn''' (September 19, 1921 – June 27, 2010), known as '''Rose Van Thyn''', was a survivor of the [[Auschwitz concentration camp]] during [[World War II]] in [[Poland]]. She became a naturalized [[United States citizen]] residing in [[Shreveport, Louisiana|Shreveport]], [[Louisiana]]. In addition to raising a familly and working as a professional seamstress, she was active for forty years as a [[Holocaust]] educator.<ref name="honor">{{Cite news|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/13098934/|title=Group to Honor Community Leaders|last=Haag|first=Diane|date=17 February 2003|work=The Times|access-date=14 August 2017|archive-url=|archive-date=|dead-url=|page=5B|via=Newspapers.com}}</ref> She spoke to thousands of children in Shreveport and as an academic fellow to college students about her experiences during the Holocaust.<ref name=":1">{{Cite news|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/13098614/|title=Holocaust Survivor Rose Van Thyn Dies|last=Pierson|first=Drew|date=28 June 2010|work=The Times|access-date=14 August 2017|archive-url=|archive-date=|dead-url=|via=Newspapers.com}}</ref>


== Biography ==
== Biography ==

Revision as of 09:58, 20 August 2017

Rozette Lopes-Dias
"Rose" Van Thyn
Born
Rozette Lopes-Dias

(1921-09-19)September 19, 1921
Amsterdam, Netherlands
DiedJune 27, 2010(2010-06-27) (aged 88)
Shreveport, Caddo Parish
Louisiana, USA
Occupation(s)Holocaust activist, Seamstress
Spouse(s)(1) Moses Lezer (died in concentration camp)
(2) Louis Van Thyn (married 1946–2008, his death)
ChildrenNico A. Van Thyn Elsa A. Wellen

Rozette Lopes-Dias Van Thyn (September 19, 1921 – June 27, 2010), known as Rose Van Thyn, was a survivor of the Auschwitz concentration camp during World War II in Poland. She became a naturalized United States citizen residing in Shreveport, Louisiana. In addition to raising a familly and working as a professional seamstress, she was active for forty years as a Holocaust educator.[1] She spoke to thousands of children in Shreveport and as an academic fellow to college students about her experiences during the Holocaust.[2]

Biography

Van Thyn was born in Amsterdam in 1921.[3] She originally attended Free University of Amsterdam, until she had to quit and start working in a factory.[3] She and her family were Jewish.[4] In 1942, when the Nazis occupied Amsterdam, her sister and brother-in-law were taken by German soldiers and then her father and first husband.[5] Finally, Van Thyn and her mother were taken to Auschwitz, where Van Thyn was assigned inmate number 62511.[3][6] They were placed on a railroad cattle car with nearly one hundred other people for three days.[4] At Auschwitz, she underwent gruesome medical experiments, all performed without sedatives.[7][8] She was one of two medical-experiment victims of Dr. Carl Clauberg's sterilization experiment who was interviewed in 2005 about the program.[9] She lived in Block 10 of Auschwitz for two years.[10] Later she was dispatched to Ravensbrueck and survived a "death march" at the end of the war.[11] She was liberated by American soldiers[12] on April 26, 1945.[3]

Van Thyn discovered that both parents, a sister, and her first husband, Mozes Lezer, were killed in the death camps.[8] After she returned to the Netherlands, she met fellow Holocaust survivor, Louis van Thyn, whose first wife died in the Holocaust.[5] Rose and Louis married in Amsterdam in 1946. The Van Thyns had a son and a daughter.[12] The Van Thyns' immigration was sponsored by the Shreveport Jewish Federation and the family of Abe Gilbert.[2] Van Thyn became a United States citizen in 1961.[3]

A home maker and professional seamstress, she was also active as holocaust educator for over three decades. [1] [12] She related her life story before civic groups, churches, and schools throughout northwest Louisiana. She also spoke as an Attaway Fellow in Civic Culture to Centenary College students.[12]

In 2002, she was awarded an honorary Doctor of Humane Letters at Centenary's 2002 commencement exercises.[13] In 2003, Louis and Rose Van Thyn were recognized for their civic support by the National Conference for Community and Justice, formerly known as the National Conference of Christians and Jews.[14] She also received the Liberty Bell Award from the Shreveport Bar Association.[12]

In 2008, her husband, Louis, died.[15] Van Thyn died on June 27, 2010 at age 88.[2] Shreveport mayor Cedric Glover expressed sorrow on Van Thyn's death: "It is a tremendous loss not just to Shreveport but to the entire world to know that someone who possessed the knowledge and experience and the history that she lived has now passed on."[16]

In 2016, her son, Nico Van Thyn, released an independently published book about his parents' experience, titled Survivors: 62511, 70726: Two Holocaust stories, from Amsterdam to Auschwitz to America.[6]

Death and legacy

Centenary College has a Van Thyn Endowed Professorship Chair.[17] Centenary College holds an Annual Rose and Louis Van Thyn Holocaust Lecture Series.[13] An oral history interview with Van Thyn is on file at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum.[18] Other recordings of some of her speeches are archived by Louisiana State University Shreveport.[19]

References

  1. ^ a b Haag, Diane (17 February 2003). "Group to Honor Community Leaders". The Times. p. 5B. Retrieved 14 August 2017 – via Newspapers.com. {{cite news}}: Cite has empty unknown parameter: |dead-url= (help)
  2. ^ a b c Pierson, Drew (28 June 2010). "Holocaust Survivor Rose Van Thyn Dies". The Times. Retrieved 14 August 2017 – via Newspapers.com. {{cite news}}: Cite has empty unknown parameter: |dead-url= (help)
  3. ^ a b c d e Hargrave, Kacee (1 May 2000). "Area Remembers Holocaust Victims". The Times. Retrieved 14 August 2017 – via Newspapers.com. {{cite news}}: Cite has empty unknown parameter: |dead-url= (help)
  4. ^ a b Markley, Melanie (10 November 1988). "Holocaust Survivor Recounts Nightmare". The Times. Retrieved 14 August 2017 – via Newspapers.com. {{cite news}}: Cite has empty unknown parameter: |dead-url= (help)
  5. ^ a b LaCour, Courtney (25 April 1999). "'You Never Get Over This'". The Town Talk. Retrieved 14 August 2017 – via Newspapers.com. {{cite news}}: Cite has empty unknown parameter: |dead-url= (help)
  6. ^ a b Van Thyn, Nico, Survivors: 62511, 70726: Two Holocaust stories, from Amsterdam to Auschwitz to America, Seattle, CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, 2016, p. 18. ISBN 978-1536983081, ISBN 153698308X.
  7. ^ Casey, Steve (3 April 2001). "Holocaust Survivor Harbors No Hate". The Times. Retrieved 14 August 2017 – via Newspapers.com. {{cite news}}: Cite has empty unknown parameter: |dead-url= (help)
  8. ^ a b Heyen, Curtis; Jordan, Carita (18 April 2001). "Holocaust Memories Do Not Fade". The Times. Retrieved 14 August 2017 – via Newspapers.com. {{cite news}}: Cite has empty unknown parameter: |dead-url= (help)
  9. ^ Susan Benedict and Ruth Yolanda Weinberger (2008). "Medical Personnel in Auschwitz: Inmate Doctors and Nurses" (PDF). pg 8-9. Ludwig Boltzmann Institute for Historical Social Science.
  10. ^ Harty, Kristin (1 May 1992). "Too Painful to Forget". The Times. p. 2A. Retrieved 14 August 2017 – via Newspapers.com. {{cite news}}: Cite has empty unknown parameter: |dead-url= (help)
  11. ^ Markley, Melanie (10 November 1988). "Holocaust Survivor Recounts Nightmare". The Times. p. 20A. Retrieved 14 August 2017 – via Newspapers.com. {{cite news}}: Cite has empty unknown parameter: |dead-url= (help)
  12. ^ a b c d e "Obituary of Rose Van Thyn". Shreveport Times. Retrieved July 12, 2010. {{cite web}}: Italic or bold markup not allowed in: |publisher= (help)
  13. ^ a b "Annual Rose and Louis Van Thyn Holocaust Lecture Commences April 13 at Centenary College of Louisiana". prweb.com.
  14. ^ Haag, Diane (17 February 2003). "Group to Honor Community Leaders". The Times. p. 1B. Retrieved 14 August 2017 – via Newspapers.com. {{cite news}}: Cite has empty unknown parameter: |dead-url= (help)
  15. ^ "Van Thyn's Work Must Continue". The Times. 29 June 2010. Retrieved 14 August 2017 – via Newspapers.com. {{cite news}}: Cite has empty unknown parameter: |dead-url= (help)
  16. ^ "Holocaust survivor, community educator Rose Van Thyn passes away," Shreveport Times, June 28, 2010
  17. ^ "Rose Van Thyn Leaves Legacy of Mutual Respect". The Times. 24 April 2011. Retrieved 14 August 2017 – via Newspapers.com. {{cite news}}: Cite has empty unknown parameter: |dead-url= (help)
  18. ^ "Oral history interview with Rose van Thyn - Collections Search - United States Holocaust Memorial Museum". collections.ushmm.org.
  19. ^ "Rose and Louis Van Thyn Materials, 1983-2005". Louisiana State University Shreveport. Retrieved 2017-08-19.
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