Margarete Johanna Paula Angres (1892)

Born 27 Jul 1892 in Breslau, Silesia, Prussia, German Empire

Ancestors

Died [date unknown] in Bogotá, Colombia

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Grete Angres survived in hiding in Belgium.

Biography

Grete Angres has Jewish Roots.

Margarete "Grete" was born in Breslau in 1892. She was the daughter of Max Angres and Elbeth Cohn, and the step-daughter of Grete Wolfsohn and half-sister of Käthe Angres.

She was called "Tía Oh là là" (Aunt Oh là là) by her great-nieces and nephews in Colombia because she used the French expression quite frequently (she picked it up from her time living in Belgium). As she was a social worker, she left Germany in 1933 and went to work in Brussels, Belgium. During Nazi occupation, she continued to live there. The family story passed around is that she was hidden in a convent in Belgium during the occupation.

Marie Mulle, the Belgian founder of the International Committee of Schools of Social Work, and Alice Salomon, the German pioneer for social work training, both appeared to have had a direct hand in protecting Grete from deportation.^[1] Whether Grete had been hidden in a convent or not at some point during the Nazi occupation of Belgium may never be known for certain.

She immigrated to Colombia after the war was over to join her half-sister and her family there.^[2]

She passed away in at an unknown date in Bogotá, Colombia from cancer.

Sources

1. ↑ Scanned documentation on Grete Angres from the Belgian Foreigners' Police.
2. ↑ Scanned documents from the Arolsen Archives.