Samuel van Bever was a son of Samson van Bever and Sientje Smeer. He married Martje Worms on 21 Juli 1937 in Amsterdam, a daughter of Salomon Worms and Mietje Furth. The couple had two children; their daughter, who was born in 1938, has survived the Holocaust but their little son Louis Salomon, born in January 1940, deceased ten months later in October 1940.
Samuel van Bever was arrested during the first round-up of Amsterdam on 22 February 1941. During this raid, the first in the Netherland, 427 men between 20 and 35 years of age were arrested and brought together on the Jonas Daniël Meijerplein. The captured Jews, including Samuel van Bever, were taken to Camp Schoorl near Alkmaar and from there deported to Mauthausen concentration camp. The conditions in Mauthausen were appalling and after some time, obits were sent to Amsterdam. Of the 427 detainees, only two men survived the war.
Samuel van Bever lost his life in Mauthausen on 19 August 1941 and his wife Martje Worms was murdered in Auschwitz on 11 December 1942.
Samuel self was born into a family of ten children. Three children have died in childhood, long before the war. One daughter passed away in Amsterdam during the Holocaust. But he self, his brothers Aron, Simon and Salomon and his sisters Sara and Heintje have been killed in the Shoah.
City Archive of Amsterdam, archive cards of Samson van Bever, Samuel van Bever and Martje Worms and an addition of a visitor of the website.