Biography

About Hartog Doof

Hartog Door married 25 July 1942 in Amsterdam to Sara Zwaaf, daughter of Abraham Zwaaf and Grietje Pront.
City Archive of Amsterdam, archive card of Sara Zwaaf.

Hartog Doof joined the Hollandia-Kattenburg textile factory in Amsterdam on 27 December 1940. On Wednesday, 11 November 1942, around 4:30 PM, Willy Lages conducted the Sicherheitspolizei raid on the Hollandia factories. All exits were blocked, and the Jewish staff members were taken away that evening. Photographs of all workers taken away that evening, as well as those deported previously, appear in the 'Boek der tranen' [Book of tears].
Jewish Historical Museum, Documents collection, inv.nr B1376, 'Boek der tranen' [Book of tears] W.G.S. Bornstein, Students of the Nederlands Israëlietisch Seminarium (The Netherlands Jewish Theological Seminary) murdered during the Nazi-occupation of the Kingdom of the Nether-lands, 1940-1945 (2003)