Peter Windesheim is the son of Ilse Windesheim, who is also listed in this Memorial Book. Peter was born on 18 October 1936 in the Israelite Hospital in Frankfurt/Main, Gagernstraße 36. His father was the non-Jewish salesman Peter H., about whom nothing is known.

Peter and Ilse Windesheim found shelter in the home of the Jewish Women's Association in Neu-Isenburg ten days after Peter's birth. Ilse's family did not want to accept the illegitimate child. Ilse stayed together with her son in the "Home Isenburg" for one year. Shortly after Peter's first birthday Ilse left the institution to take a job in a Jewish home for the elderly in Würzburg. She gave Peter up for adoption. On 4 February 1938, the one-and-a-half-year old boy was transferred to Amsterdam via the central office for Jewish adoption mediation (Zentralstelle für jüdische Adoptionsvermittlung). In Amsterdam Henri and Sophie Rosa Drukker, nee van Adelsberg, first took Peter into care and adopted him a few months later. At that time, Peter was named Robert Henri Drukker (called Robbie).

After the invasion of the Netherlands by the German Wehrmacht, the adoptive parents succeeded to hide Robert Henri in mediating through the med. Jules Brukker, who was a nephew of Henri Drukker. Henri lived in the family of the bookbinder Arien Roeland Visscher and his wife, the social worker Elisabeth Christina Visscher-Valckenier Suringar, in Bussum (North Hollan) until 1946. The couple and his two daughters became Robert Henri's second family. Robert Henri's adoptive parents, Henri and Sophie Rosa Drukker, did not survive the Shoah. They hid in the Netherlands, but were denounced, deported to Auschwitz in March 1944 and murdered there.

After the Second Word War, the nine-year-old Robert Henri had to leave his home at the Visschers. The sister of the murdered Sophie Rosa Drukker, Rose Henrietta van Adelsberg, and her husband, Meyer van Adelsberg, brought him to the United States. From the American naval base in Le Havre Robert Henry went along with other children by ship SS Marine Flasher to New York in 1946. From there, his reltives took him to Glendale, California. In 1948, they adopted the 12-year old boy. Robert Henri again got another name: Henri Robert van Adelsberg.

After graduating from high school Henri Robert attended a military academy. Military service led him back to Germany from 1954 to 1957. From there he took every opportunity to visit the Visscher family in the Netherlands. He is still closely associated with the children and grandcildren of his Dutsch lifesavers.

Henry Robert van Adelsberg studied at California State University and at the University of Southern California Law School. He worked in a senior position in the HR departments of large companies. Later, until his retirement in 2006, he was the owner an the president of a consulting firm.

In 2015 Henri Robert van Adelsberg married Susan. The couple lives in Arizona.

This biography is based on documents and information provided by Henri an Susan van Adelsberg.

Further source: Stadtarchiv Neu-Isenburg

On the fate of Henri and Sophie Drukker and on the award for Arien Roeland Visscher and Elisabeth Christina Visscher-Valckenier Suringar as "Righteous among the Nations" by Yad Vashem see the article: http://db.yadvashem.org/righteous/family.html?language=en&itemld=6,947,265th