Biography

About Samuel Swaab

Samuel Swaab, a son of Joseph Swaab and Jetje Berkhof, married 10 June 1936 to Martha Moffie, a daughter of Abraham Moffie and Sarah Sealtiel. The couple had a son in 1942, who has survived the Holocaust.
His siblings who also have been killed durig the Holocaust were Benedictus, Hartog, Mozes, Sientje, Anna, Aaron, and Heintje.
City Archive of Amsterdam, archive card of Joseph Swaab and Martha Moffie.

At first Samuel Swaab worked for a tobacco dealer. In 1939 he was a bicycle repairman assistant for Salomons on the Oudeschans.
Archief van de gemeentelijke sociale dienst, inv. nr. 4318, dossier 82360; inv. nr. 2168, dossier 30813