Salomon Velleman was a son of Hartog Alexander Velleman and Lena Leons. He married 1 May 1940 Elisabeth de Vries in Rotterdam, a daughter of Jesaja de Vries and Sara Preger. It may assumed that after their wedding they went living at Burgermeester Meineszlaan 74, but later they still moved to nr. 79.
Salomon and Elisabeth had two sons; Jack was born in 1940 and Alexander in 1942. Jack however passed away 21 July 1941, 8 months old and was interred in the Jewisch Cemetery Toepad in Rotterdam.
Whether the family obeyed the German call for “work in the East” or not, is unclear. Perhaps there was another reason, but Salomon and his wife Elisabeth werd transferred to Westerbork 12 March 1943 as penal cases and were locked in in barack 66. There they had to stay with their little boy Alexander till 11 May 1943, the date they where put on transport to Sobibor, together with 1143 other deportees.
Esther Velleman-de Vries and her son Alexander Velleman were killed immediately on arrival in Sobibor 14 July 1943.
However, on arrival in Sobibor, Salomon Velleman was selected as one of the few for hard labor in the peat cutting camp of Dorohucza, where he eventually lost his life 30 November 1943.
City Archive of Rotterdam, family registration cards of Hartog Alexander Velleman and Jesaja de Vries; website Het Stenen Archief, tombstone Jack Velleman; List of Jew transports from the Netherlands;the file cabinet of the Jewish Council, registration cards of Salomon Velleman, Elisabeth Velleman-de Vries and Alexander Velleman and an addition of a visitor of the website.