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((Infobox person
| name   = Rozette Lopes-Dias<br />"Rose" Van Thyn
| image     = Holocaust survivor Rose Van Thyn of Shreveport, LA.jpg
| birth_name  = Rozette Lopes-Dias
| birth_date  = ((birth date|1921|9|19))
| birth_place =  [[Amsterdam]], Netherlands
| death_date  = ((death date and age|2010|6|27|1921|9|19)) 
| death_place = [[Shreveport, Louisiana]], US
| spouse= ((ubl|Moses Lezer (died in concentration camp) |Louis Van Thyn (married 1946–2008, his death)))
| children= 2
| occupation     = [[Holocaust]] activist, [[Seamstress]]
| footnotes=
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'''Rozette Lopes-Dias Van Thyn''' (September 19, 1921 – June 27, 2010), known as '''Rose Van Thyn''', was a [[Holocaust survivor]] of the  [[Auschwitz concentration camp]] during [[World War II]] in [[Poland]]. She became a naturalized [[United States citizen]] residing in [[Shreveport, Louisiana|Shreveport]], [[Louisiana]]. In addition to raising a family and working as a professional seamstress, she was active for forty years as a [[Holocaust education|Holocaust educator]].<ref name="honor">((Cite news|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/13098934/|title=Group to Honor Community Leaders|last=Haag|first=Diane|date=17 February 2003|work=[[The Times (Shreveport)|The Times]]|location=[[Shreveport]]|access-date=14 August 2017|page=5B|via=Newspapers.com))</ref> She spoke to thousands of children in Shreveport and as an academic fellow to college students about her experiences during [[the Holocaust]].<ref name=":1">((Cite news|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/13098614/|title=Holocaust Survivor Rose Van Thyn Dies|last=Pierson|first=Drew|date=28 June 2010|work=The Times|location=Shreveport|access-date=14 August 2017|via=Newspapers.com))</ref>

== Biography ==
Van Thyn was born in [[Amsterdam]] in 1921.<ref name=":2">((Cite news|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/13099377/|title=Area Remembers Holocaust Victims|last=Hargrave|first=Kacee|date=1 May 2000|work=The Times (Shreveport)|location=Shreveport|access-date=14 August 2017|via=Newspapers.com))</ref> She originally attended [[Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam|Free University of Amsterdam]], until she had to quit and start working in a [[factory]].<ref name=":2" /> She and her family were [[Jews|Jewish]].<ref name=":4" /> In 1942, when the [[Nazi]]s occupied Amsterdam, her sister and brother-in-law were taken by German soldiers and then her father and first husband.<ref name=":3">((Cite news|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/13099571/|title=You Never Get Over This|last=LaCour|first=Courtney|date=25 April 1999|work=The Town Talk|location=[[Alexandria, Louisiana]]|access-date=14 August 2017|via=Newspapers.com))</ref> Finally, Van Thyn and her mother were taken to Auschwitz, where Van Thyn was assigned inmate number 62511.<ref name=":2" /><ref name="Survivors">Van Thyn, Nico, ''Survivors: 62511, 70726: Two Holocaust stories, from Amsterdam to Auschwitz to America'', Seattle, [[CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform]], 2016, p.&nbsp;18. ((ISBN|978-1536983081)), ((ISBN|153698308X)).</ref> They were placed on railroad [[Stock car (rail)|cattle cars]] with nearly one hundred other people for three days<ref name=":4">((Cite news|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/13099973/|title=Holocaust Survivor Recounts Nightmare|last=Markley|first=Melanie|date=10 November 1988|work=The Times|location=Shreveport|access-date=14 August 2017|via=Newspapers.com))</ref> with the men separated from the women.<ref>((Cite news|title=Auschwitz survivors reunited|last=Keith|first=Bill|author-link=Bill Keith (politician)|date=13 July 1977|work=The Times|location=Shreveport|via=Newspapers.com))</ref> At Auschwitz, she underwent medical experiments, all performed without [[sedative]]s.<ref>((Cite news|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/13100504/|title=Holocaust Survivor Harbors No Hate|last=Casey|first=Steve|date=3 April 2001|work=The Times|location=Shreveport|access-date=14 August 2017|via=Newspapers.com))</ref><ref name=":0">((Cite news|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/13098419/|title=Holocaust Memories Do Not Fade|last=Heyen|first=Curtis|date=18 April 2001|work=The Times|location=Shreveport|access-date=14 August 2017|last2=Jordan|first2=Carita|via=Newspapers.com))</ref> She was one of two medical-experiment victims of [[Carl Clauberg]]'s sterilization experiment who was interviewed in 2005 about the program.<ref>((Cite web|url=http://www.lbihs.at/BenedictWeinbergerMedicalPersonnel.pdf|title=Medical Personnel in Auschwitz: Inmate Doctors and Nurses|last=Susan Benedict and Ruth Yolanda Weinberger|date=2008|work=pg 8-9|publisher=Ludwig Boltzmann Institute for Historical Social Science))</ref> She lived in Block 10 of Auschwitz for two years.<ref>((Cite news|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/13098522/|title=Too Painful to Forget|last=Harty|first=Kristin|date=1 May 1992|work=The Times|location=Shreveport|access-date=14 August 2017|page=2A|via=Newspapers.com))</ref> Later she was dispatched to [[Ravensbrueck]] and survived a "death march" at the end of the war.<ref>((Cite news|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/13100110/|title=Holocaust Survivor Recounts Nightmare|last=Markley|first=Melanie|date=10 November 1988|work=The Times|location=Shreveport|access-date=14 August 2017|page=20A|via=Newspapers.com))</ref> She was liberated by American soldiers<ref name=obit/> on April 26, 1945.<ref name=":2" />

Upon liberation Van Thyn discovered that both parents, a sister, and her husband, Mozes Lezer, were killed in the death camps.<ref name=":0" /> After she returned to the Netherlands, she met fellow survivor Louis Van Thyn, whose first wife was murdered in the Holocaust.<ref name=":3" /> Rose and Louis married in Amsterdam in 1946. The Van Thyns had a son and a daughter.<ref name="obit" /> The Van Thyns' 1956 immigration to the United States was sponsored by the Shreveport Jewish Federation and the family of Abe Gilbert.<ref name=":1" /> Van Thyn became a United States citizen in 1961.<ref name=":2" />

A homemaker and professional seamstress, she was also active as a Holocaust educator for over three decades,<ref name="honor"/><ref name="obit" /> wanting to tell her story to the world.<ref>((Cite news|title=Mrs. Van Thyn (62511), Angel of Auschwitz|last=Hilburn|first=Wiley|author-link=Wiley W. Hilburn|date=11 July 2010|work=[[The News-Star]]|location=[[Monroe, Louisiana]]|page=4B|via=Newspapers.com))</ref> She related her life story to civic groups, churches, and schools throughout northern Louisiana.<ref>((Cite news|title=Holocaust survivor shares her memories|last=Sutherland|first=Eugene|date=4 May 2005|work=The News-Star|location=Monroe, Louisiana|page=3B|via=Newspapers.com))</ref> She also spoke as an Attaway Fellow in Civic Culture to [[Centenary College of Louisiana|Centenary College]] students.<ref name="obit">((cite news|url=http://www.legacy.com/obituaries/shreveporttimes/obituary.aspx?n=rozetta-van-thyn-rose&pid=143834379|title=Obituary of Rose Van Thyn|newspaper=[[The Times (Shreveport)|Shreveport Times]]|access-date=July 12, 2010))</ref> During the [[United States Senate election in Louisiana, 1990|1990 election for a United States Senator from Louisiana]] she criticized [[Republican Party (United States)|Republican]] candidate [[David Duke]] who was then a [[Louisiana State House of Representatives|State Representative]] and also a former Grand Wizard of the [[Ku Klux Klan]], comparing him to [[Adolf Hitler]].<ref>((Cite news|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/13419618/|title=Do not be deceived by the like of Duke|last=Van Thyn|first=Rose|date=11 February 1990|work=The Times|department=Letters|location=Shreveport|access-date=29 August 2017|via=Newspapers.com))</ref>

In 2002, she was awarded an honorary Doctor of Humane Letters at Centenary's 2002 commencement exercises.<ref name="prweb.com">((cite web|url=http://www.prweb.com/releases/2015/04/prweb12628919.htm|title=Annual Rose and Louis Van Thyn Holocaust Lecture Commences April 13 at Centenary College of Louisiana|website=prweb.com))</ref> In 2003, Louis and Rose Van Thyn were recognized for their civic support by the [[National Conference for Community and Justice]], formerly known as the National Conference of Christians and Jews.<ref>((Cite news|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/13098900/|title=Group to Honor Community Leaders|last=Haag|first=Diane|date=17 February 2003|work=The Times|location=Shreveport|access-date=14 August 2017|page=1B|via=Newspapers.com))</ref> She also received the Liberty Bell Award from the Shreveport Bar Association.<ref name="obit" />

In 2008, her husband, Louis, died.<ref>((Cite news|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/13098755/|title=Van Thyn's Work Must Continue|date=29 June 2010|work=The Times|location=Shreveport|access-date=14 August 2017|via=Newspapers.com))</ref> Van Thyn died on June 27, 2010, at age 88.<ref name=":1" /> Shreveport mayor [[Cedric Glover]] expressed sorrow on Van Thyn's death: "It is a tremendous loss not just to Shreveport but to the entire world to know that someone who possessed the knowledge and experience and the history that she lived has now passed on."<ref name="times">"Holocaust survivor, community educator Rose Van Thyn passes away," ''Shreveport Times'', June 28, 2010</ref>

In 2016, her son, Nico Van Thyn, released an independently published book about his parents' experience, titled ''Survivors: 62511, 70726: Two Holocaust stories, from Amsterdam to Auschwitz to America''.<ref name="Survivors"/>

==Death and legacy==
[[Centenary College of Louisiana|Centenary College]] has a Van Thyn Endowed Professorship Chair.<ref>((Cite news|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/13099767/|title=Rose Van Thyn Leaves Legacy of Mutual Respect|date=24 April 2011|work=The Times|location=Shreveport|access-date=14 August 2017|via=Newspapers.com))</ref> Centenary College holds an Annual Rose and Louis Van Thyn Holocaust Lecture Series.<ref name="prweb.com" /> An oral history interview with Van Thyn is on file at the [[United States Holocaust Memorial Museum]].<ref>((cite web|url=https://collections.ushmm.org/search/catalog/irn512244|title=Oral history interview with Rose van Thyn - Collections Search - United States Holocaust Memorial Museum|website=collections.ushmm.org))</ref> Other recordings of some of her speeches are archived by [[Louisiana State University Shreveport]].<ref>((cite web |url=http://scripts.lsus.edu/libarchives/collections.php?collection=659 |title=Rose and Louis Van Thyn Materials, 1983-2005 |access-date=2017-08-19 |publisher=[[Louisiana State University Shreveport]] ))</ref>

==References==
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== External links ==
*((Youtube|lV12j5LCj_k|Rose Van Thyn at the USC Shoah Foundation Institute))
*[https://www.ushmm.org/wlc/en/media_ph.php?ModuleId=10005434&MediaId=1774 Photograph of Rozetta Lezer Lopesdias-Van Thyn and a friend, with the compulsory Star of David on their clothing. Amsterdam, the Netherlands, May 1942-1943] -[[United States Holocaust Memorial Museum]]

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