Carolina Velleman was a daughter of hartog Barend Velleman and Mietje van Zanten. She married 7 September 1921 in Rotterdam Abraham Weiman, a cabinet maker by trade and a son of Aaron Weiman and Mietje te Korte. The couple had three children, namely Aron in 1922, Hartog Barend in 1927 and Mietje Elsje in 1930..
24 November 1931 the Weiman family moved from Vriendenlaan 30 1 to Vinkenstraat 93b and 26 September 1939 they moved in at the address Snellemanstraat 36b. After 14 May 1940, Carolina’s father Hartog Barend Velleman came to live in with the famiy; during the bombardment of Rotterdam his dwelling and his street, Lange Pannekoekstraat were destroyed and he was in need for another housing.
4 August 1942, the complete Weiman family was registered in Camp Westerbork; probably also father/father-in-law Hartog Barend Velleman. The Weiman family was put on transport 2 October 1942 to Auschwitz but the train stopped at Kozel, about 80 km west from Auschwitz. There, 160 boys and men, “suitable for work” were forced to leave the train, to be employed as force laborers in the surrounding satellite camps of Auschwitz. Those, who stayed in the train were transported to Auschwitz and upon arrival there 5 October 1942, Carolina Weiman-Velleman and her daughter Mietje Elsje were immediately killed.
In October 1942, Abraham Weiman and his sons Aaron and Hartog Barend ended up as forced laborers in the workcamp Schoppinitz. Due to the terrible circumstances and hardship they have lost their lives there. Their official date of death has been established as 28 February 1943.
City Archive of Rotterdam, family registration cards of Hartog Barend Velleman and Abraham Weiman; list of Jew transports from The Netherlandsl; the Joods Monument about the work camp Schoppinitz and the file cabinet of the Jewish Council, registration cards of the Abraham Weiman family.