Herman Salomonson had studied in Delft. During the First World War, he wrote poems under the pseudonym Melis Stoke. He was a reserve captain. In the war period of May 1940, he served with the Centraal Luchtmachtbureau (Central Air Force Bureau) in The Hague, where he broadcast warning messages for the Air Force.
Herman Salomonson was a reporter and director of press agency Aneta, housed in the ANP's building The Hague. Immediately after the capitulation, he was deposed from his job and prohibited from entering the building.
Herman Salomonsen illegally distributed poems he had written. He was caught on 24 October 1940 and deported via Scheveningen prison (where he continued to write poems), Amersfoort and Buchenwald to Mauthausen, where he was executed.
NIOD, Erelijst Verzet en Koopvaardij, database made by J.W. de Leeuw;
B. Braber, Zelfs als wij zullen verliezen. Joden in verzet en illegaliteit in Nederland 1940-1945 (Amsterdam, 1990) 53; Presser-I, 69
J. van Adrichem (et al.), Rebel, mijn hart : kunstenaars 1940-1945 (Zwolle 1995) 71
In 2006 a new edition of the novel Zoutwaterliefde by Herman Salomonson was published, a story about the journey by boat from Holland to the Dutch Indies which he had written in 1929. In the epilogue in this new edition there is an extensive biography and bibliography of Herman Salomonson.
Melis Stoke (pseud. van Herman Salomonson), Zoutwaterliefde: kroniek van een reis per mailboot (Leiden 2006)
Herman Salomonson married in 1922 in The Hague.
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