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

Holocaust survivor Holocaust survivors are people who survived the Holocaust, defined as the persecution and attempted annihilation of the Jews by Nazi Germany and Collaboration with Nazi Germany and Fascist Italy, its collaborators before and during World War II ...

. She was the sister of

Sanne Ledermann Susanne "Sanne" Ledermann (7 October 1928 – 19 November 1943) was a History of the Jews in Germany, German Jewish girl who was murdered in the Auschwitz concentration camp. She was best-known for her friendship with sisters Anne Frank, Anne ...

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 Charlotte Ledermann was born in

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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, or Oświęcim, was a complex of over 40 Nazi concentration camps, concentration and extermination camps operated by Nazi Germany in Polish areas annexed by Nazi Germany, occupied Poland (in a portion annexed into Germany in 1939) d ...

. She later emigrated to the

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, and married 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 for ...

, who would later win the Nobel Prize. The couple had four children and she was widowed in 1998. She currently resides in

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