Simon den Hartog was the son of Abraham den Hartog and Leentje den Hartog. At age twenty he left home and lived in Dinxperlo and Coevorden. When his father's business encountered financial difficulties (debts, mortgage payments that could not be made, and imminent bankruptcy), Simon returned to Oostendam in 1930, where he took over his father's business.
When summons for the so-called work expansion in Germany were issued, Simon went to the Israëlitisch Ziekenhuis (Jewish Hospital) on the Schietbaanlaan in Rotterdam, where his sister Elisabeth was the director and registered him as an orderly.
In November 1942 the SD raided the Israëlitisch Ziekenhuis on the suspicion that the Jewish resistance fighter Sara van Gigh was hiding there. Simon was caught and taken to Westerbork, from where he was deported to Sobibor on 20 July 1943.
On 8 March 1943 Simon's butcher shop was liquidated by the Nazi Omnia Treuhandgesellschaft organization. The liquidation report indicates that nothing remained. Simon had removed or destroyed everything.
J. de Moei, In het net gevangen. Een joods gezin in de Tweede Wereldoorlog. Ridderkerk, Rotterdam, Westebork, Polen (Rotterdam 2003) 12, 51, 53, 58 and 87
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