Jozeph or Joseph Sanders was a son of Alexander Sanders and Aaltje van Spier. He married in Arnhem to Sibilla van Dam, a daughter of David van Dam and Hanna Lammert Doof.
Joseph and Sibilla had six children together; the first born in April 1883 was named Aaltje, then they had Saartje and Johanna who all three of them have been killed during the Holocaust.
Sibilla died in childbirth - only 33 years old, on 13 September 1893 in Arnhem, one day after the birth of her youngest child, who died only one month old. Another baby-boy died only 2 years old and one son died in Rotterdam, aged 47, in April 1940.
Widower Joseph Sanders remarried in Arnhem on 31 January 1894 to Sibilla's sister Jeannette, 26 years old and with her Joseph had another ten children. Two of her children died at a very young age and three children have survived the war. Her other children, Abraham, Markus, Sibilla, Rebecca and Sophia have been killed during the Shoah.
Jeanette van Dam passed away at age 56 in Rotterdam, on 18 October 1923.
Source: City Archive of Rotterdam, family registration card of Jozeph/Joseph Sanders and website www.wiewaswie.nl.
After the death of his wife Jeannette van Dam, Joseph Sanders lived in at various addresses in Rotterdam. Mostly with his daughter Sibilla. According the Peoples Registration of Rotterdam Joseph lived in per 30 June 1936 at Witte van Haemstedestraat 28; In 1938 and 1939 at Roo Valkstraat 20B and 12C and since 12 June 1940 at Oranje Nassaustraat 8A with his daughter Sibilla Sanders. He lived there until she was arrested and deported to Auschwitz so Joseph had to move again, now to Havenstraat 159 where his other daughter Sophia lived. He stayed there till after April 1942, the moment that he was arrested and deported to Sobibor.
Peoples Registration of Rotterdam, family registration cards of Joseph Sanders and Sibilla Sanders and an addition of a visitor of the website.
In addition, a Jokos file (number 60338) on this household is at the Amsterdam Municipal Archive. Access is subject to authorization from the Stichting Joods Maatschappelijk Werk.