Martje Worms, born on 1 January 1913 as a daughter of Salomon Worms and Mietje Furth, married Samuel van Bever in Amsterdam on 21 July 1937. He was a son of Samson van Bever and Sientje Smeer. Martje and Samuel had two children: their daughter Sientje, who was born in 1938, has survived the Holocaust but their little son Louis Salomon, who was born in January 1940, died ten months later in October 1940 in Amsteram due to some childrens disease.
Martje Worms was the eighth of the eleven children of Salomon Worms and Mietje Furth. The eldest was Leendert, who was born on 18 September 1902, then followed Levie on 10 October 1903, but he passed away in Amsterdam on 24 November 1933, unmarried. Then came Sara Amanda, who was born on 6 February 1905; she survived the war, married after the war Joseph Vos and emigrated to Canada.
Rachel Worms, who was born on 30 December 1906 remained unmarried and died in Amsterdam on 11 October 1938. Jacob was born on 25 October 1910 and then Betsie on 3 September 1911 but she died already on 14 Febuary 1912, only five months old. Martje was born in 1913 and Rosette on 1 July 1914. The one before last was Abraham, who was born on 18 September 1916 but died on 9 January 1918, fifteen months old and the last one was Marcus Izak, born on 3 June 1918 but who died in Amsterdam on 11 February 1919.
Of these eleven children, only Sara Amanda and Rosette survived the war. Rosette was born in 1914 and married in July 1936 the non-Jewish Adolf van Feggelen. Up from September 1936, they moved into a house in the Van Woustraat 117 3rd floor in Amsterdam, where Sientje van Bever has been housed in the Van Feggelen family as OPK foster child on 28 February 1946. (OPK means War Foster Child). But Leendert, Jacob and Martje were murdered in the Shoah.
After Martje was married in 1937 she moved in with her husband Samuel, who lived at Raamgracht 37 3rd stock in Amsterdam. On 13 January 1939 they moved to Rapenburgerstraat 34 1st floor, after which removals followed to Weidestraat 25 1st stock in Betondorp, a district in Amsterdam East, and again to Rapenburgerstraat 26 1st floor. After the raid of February 1941, of which her husband Samuel had become a victim, Martje van Bever-Worms and her daughter Sientje moved into a house at Camperstraat 52 2nd stock in Amsterdam-East.
The widowed Martje van Bever has been carried off to Westerbork on 28 November 1942, from where she was put on transport on 8 December 1942 to Auschwitz. On arrival there on 11 December 1942, Martje was gassed immediately in the gas chambers of Auschwitz-Birkenau. Her husband Samuel van Bever was already murdered on 19 August 1941 in concentration camp Mauthausen.
Sources include the Felix Archive of Antwerp, dossiers of foreigners of Borgerhout no's 2796 and 1170-272882 for Salomon Worms and no. 3031 for Mietje Furth; the City archive of Amsterdam, family registration cards of Salomon Worms, archive cards of Salomon Worms, Samson van Bever, Samuel van Bever, Martje Worms, Louis Salomon van Bever and of Adolf van Feggelen; the file cabinet of the Jewish Council, registration cards of Samuel van Bever, Martje van Bever-Worms, Sientje van Bever and Rosette van Feggelen-Worms and additions of a visitor of the website.
Previous version updated by the editors of Joods Monument on 8 February 2021.