Naatje Gaarkeuken was a daughter of Wolf Gaarkeuken and Marianne Keizer. She was unmarried and lived her sister Sara and brother Machiel at home with her parents at Karel du Jardinstraat 72a 2nd stock in Amsterdam. She was born in Haarlem, but arrived with her parents in 1906 in Amsterdam, where in the beginning they have resided at various addresses. In 1923 the family Wolf Gaarkeuken found living space at Karel du Jardinstraat.
Naatje was a tailor by trade. 25 February 1943 she moved to Volkerakstraat 41 1st floor in Amsterdam, and she had to move again to Valkenburgerstraat 139. There she lived in with M. Wertheim. That was her last known address in Amsterdam. 26 May 1943 she was deported to Camp Westerbork and stayed in barack 57. 1 June she was put on transport to Sobibor, where upon arrival there 4 June 1943, she has been immediately killed.
Her sister Sara survived the Holocaust but her brother Machiel lost his life due to hardships and hard labor coal mining in the Extern Kommando Fürstengrube in Poland, which was a subcamp of Auschwitz.
City Archive of Amsterdam, archive card of Naatje Gaarkeuken and Wolf Gaarkeuken; the file cabinet of the Jewish Council, registration cards of Naatje Gaarkeuken, Sara Gaarkeuken and Machiel Gaarkeuken.