Eberhard Bosch

Who was Eberhard Bosch?

1943-1944 Address: isolated house on the Naardense Driftweg, in Huizen

He was musician and a German citizen living in the Netherlands, who married a Jew, Lientje. They had a daughter, Kathinka, and were hiding people in their house. At first, he avoided the service by going on a starvation diet. He soon had to go into hiding, though. In 1943, they combined households with his sister-in-law, Jannie, but they were arrested in the summer of 1944. With Jannie's help, he escaped a prison van, and he hid in the house of some friends. (Lientje and Jannie were meanwhile sent to the camps, where they would meet the Franks.) After the war, he and Lientje had another daughter, and sometimes they all performed together. At some point he moved near East Berlin: he was living there as recently as May 2005 (see program including an interview — in Dutch, within a two hour long program -- link no longer works, 3-20-11). (see Lientje's entry for references; according to HLOF p. 184-5, his last name was really Rebling. During the war period, he used Bosch -- so much so that two references other than HLOF called him Bosch)