Betty Behrendt is the mother of Anne Marie Behrendt who is also recorded in this Memorial Book. She was born on January 6, 1908, in Berlin. She was a National Socialists as "half Jewish" because two of her grandparents were Jews. At 19 years, in 1927 Betty gave birth to her daughter in Frankfurt. Presumably, after birth, she immediately went with her daughter to the care of "Heim Isenburg" and worked there until October 30, 1936, as an infant nurse.

In the 1936 fall, Betty Behrendt moved to Frankfurt, where she earned her living as a maid. Her last address was Aystetter Str. 6. In September 1939, she fled to Belgium. When the German occupiers began to deport Jews from Belgium in 1942, Betty Behrendt hid. In a survey from 1959, she described her situation in the underground:

"I was forced to live in a hiding place from 1942 to September 1944. The room was on a dead end street and had no window. I only received coal with cards, and since I lived hidden, I had no right to food and coal cards. I lived in constant fear of arrest and deportation and could not venture out at night for fear of being picked up, and hardly slept to be ready to flee at any point in time."

After the end of World War II, Betty Behrendt got married and lived as Betty Mulkens with her husband in Brussels. Her daughter stayed in the children’s home “Weibliche Fürsorge” in 1939. Her fate remains unknown.

In 1955, Betty Mulkens filed an application for compensation for the damage to health suffered under the precarious living conditions underground. Her daughter is not mentioned in the extensive file. Ms. Mulkens repeatedly stated that she had no children.

Sources: Stadtarchiv Neu-Isenburg; Hessisches Hauptstaatsarchiv Wiesbaden