Aaron de Lange, born in Elburg in 1903, was one of the nine children of Joseph de Lange and Matje Hamberg. He was married 12 May 1942 in Zwolle to Clara van Zuiden, a daughter of Rubertus van Zuiden and Heintje Lea de Jongh. She survived the Holocaust. Aaron’s father, born 1847 in Elburg, died in his residence 15 June 1919. His wife Matje Hamberg passed away in Elburg too, on 26 March 1941.
Aaron de Lange had eight siblings, of whom Hartog, Jannetje and Mietje have survived the Holocaust; his baby-sister Eva died in 1893, only a few months old. But Dina, Machiel Aaron, Jacob, Betje and he himself were killed in the Shoah.
According notes on his registration card of the Jewish Council, Aaron was sent to Westerbork between 3-5 October 1942 but 7 December 1942 discharged from the camp. However, 7 December 1943 he arrived again in Westerbork and even the same day put on transport to Auschwitz. This transport included 987 deportees, among them also his brother Machiel Aäron and sister Betje. Betje has been killed immediately on arrival in Auschwitz 10 September 1943. His brother Machiel Aäron lost his life in Auschwitz 31 March 1944 but it is not known whether Aaron de Lange self, on arrival there 10 September 1943, was selected as a forced laborer or that he has been killed immediately too.
City Archive of Amsterdam, archive card of Aaron de Lange; website www.wiewaswie.nl; the file cabinet of the Jewish Council, registration card of Aaron de Lange and the list of “Jew-transports from the Netherlands; website www.openarchieven.nl and an addition of a visitor of the website.