Debora Theeboom was a daughter of Philip Theeboom and Catharina Voorzanger. She married Salomon Groen on 27 March 1935 in Amsterdam, a son of Abraham Groen and Vrouwtje Appelboom. The couple had three children: Vrouwtje and Abraham were born in Amsterdam but Philip Reini in Camp Westerbork on 7 July 1943, where he passed away one month later on 3 August 1943. He was cremated there and the urn with his ashes was placed on the Jewish cemetry in Diemen. Debora was killed in Auschwitz on 3 September 1943, toghether whith both her other children. Her husband Salomon Groen was killed 31 March 1944 also in Auschwitz.
Debora self was born into a family with eight children, of who two of her sisters have survived the Holocaust. However, her sisters Lea, Anna and Rachel, as well her brothers Izaak and Aron, have been killed during the Shoah.
City Archive of Philip Theeboom and Salomon Groen and website www.wiewaswie.nl (death certificate of Philip Reini Groen)