Barbara Charlotte Rodbell-Ledermann (née Ledermann; born 4 September 1925) is a German

Holocaust survivor Holocaust survivors are people who survived the Holocaust, defined as the persecution and attempted annihilation of the Jews by Nazi Germany and its allies before and during World War II in Europe and North Africa. There is no universally accep ...

. She was the sister of

Sanne Ledermann Susanne "Sanne" Ledermann (7 October 1928 – 19 November 1943) was a German Jewish girl who was killed by the Nazis in the Auschwitz concentration camp. Susanne is best known for her friendship with diarist Anne Frank and her sister Margot Fr ...

and a good friend of

Margot Frank Margot Betti Frank (16 February 1926 – ) was the elder daughter of Otto Frank and Edith Frank and the elder sister of Anne Frank. Margot's deportation order from the Gestapo hastened the Frank family into hiding. According to the diary of her ...

Early life

Barbara Ledermann was born in

Berlin Berlin ( , ) is the capital and largest city of Germany by both area and population. Its 3.7 million inhabitants make it the European Union's most populous city, according to population within city limits. One of Germany's sixteen constitue ...

in 1925, the first daughter of business lawyer and notary (1889–1943) and Dutch pianist (1904–1943). Her sister Sanne (1928–1943) was three years her junior. Her entire family was murdered at

Auschwitz concentration camp Auschwitz concentration camp ( (); also or ) was a complex of over 40 concentration and extermination camps operated by Nazi Germany in occupied Poland (in a portion annexed into Germany in 1939) during World War II and the Holocaust. It con ...

. She emigrated to the United States and married the biochemist

Martin Rodbell Martin Rodbell (December 1, 1925 – December 7, 1998) was an American biochemist and molecular endocrinologist who is best known for his discovery of G-proteins. He shared the 1994 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine with Alfred G. Gilman fo ...

. They had four children. Barbara Rodbell-Ledermann was widowed in 1998, and still resides in

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Living people 1925 births German people of Dutch descent German emigrants to the United States Anne Frank Holocaust survivors 20th-century German women People from Berlin People from Amsterdam American people of German descent {{Holocaust-stub