Samuel Verdooner was a son of Meijer Salomon Verdooner and Margaretha Schuit. He married 26 June 1901 in Amsterdam to Rachel Barend, a daughter of David Barend and Vogeltje Abraham van West. The couple had three childeren, who all have survived the Holocaust. Since 1921, the family resided a long period in Antwerp before they returned to Amsterdam
City Archive of Amsterdam, archive card of Samuel Verdooner and Dossier of Foreigners of the City of Antwerp, nr. 83568.
Samuel Verdooner died on 2 October 1943 in Westerbork transit camp and he was cremated on 4 October 1943. The urn with his ashes was placed on the Jewish cemetry in Diemen on field U, row 12, grave nr. 24.
Register van joden die in het kamp Westerbork zijn gecremeerd, 1943-1944; archief van de gemeente Westerbork, opgenomen in het archief van de gemeente Midden-Drenthe te Beilen, inv. n 3789