Mathilda (Tilly) van Rood was 52 years old when she married the widower of Henriette de Haas, Pierre Abas from Doesburg, 58 years of age, a son of Aron Abas and Dina de Jong. They married 12 December 1928 and had no children. Before her marriage Mathilda worked in Den Haag as companionship lady, linen lady and housekeeper and lived among others in the Israelitic Old Men- and Womens Home at St. Jacobstraat 77 in Den Haag too.
After she married, Mathilde and Pierre lived in Arnhem, Dordrecht, Spa (Belgium) and since January 1938 at Wilhelmina van Pruisenstraat 29 in Den Haag. Pierre Abas was sent from his home address to Camp Vught but on 22 April 1943 he arrived from Vught in Camp Westerbork. He stayed in barack 83 and was deported on 27 April to Sobibir, where he was immediately killed upon arrival there on 30 April 1943.
Presumably after April 1942 Mathilda moved to Hofwijckplein 18 in Den Haag. After 29 January 1943 also her widowed sister Kaatje came there to live in. She previously had her residence at Wilhelminastraat 128, together with her unmarried sister Susanna, who was taken from there and sent to Camp Westerbork already on 13 January 1943 and deported to Auschwitz.
Sources among others: Municipal Archive of Den Haag, family registration card of Mathilda van Rood; Certificate of death C308 of 10-2-1950 for Piere Abas; the file cabinet of the Jewish Council, registration cards of the various families Van Rood and an anddition of a visitor of the website.