The mayor of Assen requested that Salomon Boekbinder, a textile goods merchant, and his wife, both residing at 7 Pelikaanstraat in Assen, be located, detained and brought to trial.
Salomon Boekbinder, known as Salo, attended the state higher secondary school from 1930 to 1935 and then went to work in the family business, which was a large textile goods shop on the Gedempte Singel at the corner of the Singelstraat. Salo was engaged and got married on 15 May 1940, the day the Dutch surrendered to the Nazis. He and his wife moved to 7 Pelikaanstraat in Assen. In 1942 they tried to escape. Salo had been told of a secret route from a business contact. The route crossed the Netherlands, Belgium and occupied France up to the demarcation line. The couple made it across the demarcation line. The French authorities captured them and brought them to Tramayes in what was known as a 'résidence forcée'. They were then transferred to a camp at Chateauneuf-les-Bains in Auvergne and were separated from one another while trying to escape. Salo was sent to a prison camp, where he had to beat stones. In 1943 he was sent to Drancy and deported to Auschwitz. His wife survived the war.
A commemorative plaque placed in the hall of the Quintus building at the Nassau College on the Groen van Prinstererstraat in 1972 bears the name of Salomon Boekbinder.
//Algemeen Politieblad, nr 30, 30 July 1942, 885, notice 1373
H. Hamburger and J.C. Regtien, Joodse oorlogsmonumenten in de provincie Drenthe. Profiel (Bedum 1999) 12
F.J. Hulst and H.M. Luning, De joodse gemeente Assen. Geschiedenis van een behoorlijke Kille, 1740-1976 (Assen 1993) 188-190//
In addition, a Jokos file (number 36251) on this family is at the Amsterdam Municipal Archive. Access is subject to authorization from the Stichting Joods Maatschappelijk Werk.