Asser de Groot was a son of Samuel de Groot and Elisabeth Wertheijm. 20 March 1918 he married in Amsterdam Dina Muller, a daugher of Hartog Levij Muller and Mietje van Strien. As far as have been researched, the couple had one son, namely Harry, who married Rebecca Zippora de Lange in 1942 and was killed in the Shoah.
Asser de Groot was representative and depot holder of cigars, but also debt collector at the N.I.H.S. 6 July 1936 the family arrived from Kampen in Amsterdam and they lived at 2e Jan van der Heijdenstraat 96 3rd stock, till the moment that Asser and Dina were picked up from their home during the big raid of 20 June 1943.
Asser and Dina were previously exempted from deportation (gesperrt bis aus weiteres); Asser volunteered for Poor Peoples Care at the Dutch Israelitic District Association C as part of the Bureau of Social Affairs of the Jewish Council. But Sunday 20 June 1943, when the Germans most secretly had prepared the “Big Raid”(Grossaktion), where more than 5500 Jews were made “marschfertig” – were arrested, picked up and caught for deportation, also Asser and Dina were caught in their home and via Muiderpoort railway station deported to Westerbork. Asser was locked in in barack 46 and Dina in barack 65.
29 June both were deported to Sobibor an on arrival there 2 July 1943, they were immediately killed.
City Archive of Amsterdam, archive cards of Asser de Groot and Dina Muller; website het geheugen van planzuid (the memory of plansouth unfortunately only available in the Dutch language); the file cabinet of the Jewish Council, registration cards of Asser de Groot and Dina de Groot-Mulle.