Esther Wijnberg was a daughter of Cosman Wijnberg and his cousin 1st degree Regina Wijnberg. She married the diamond polisher Salomon Tas in Amsterdam on 8 July 1914, a son of Eliazer Tas and Eva Lamon.
Esther Wijnberg had two siblings: her brother Jacob, born 9 April 1877 was a tailor by trade and he travelled a lot, among others from Amsterdam, to Brussels , Paris, Cologne and London, from where he has been registered in the municipality of Bloemendaal 10 February 1908. However, the next year, on 5 August 1909 Jacob was unsubscribed in Bloemendaal and registered in Apeldoorn. It is not known whether Jacob Wijnberg was an inhabitant or that he was employed in the Jewisch psychiatric hospital Het Apeldoornsche Bosch but certain is that Jacob has been deported from Het Apeldoornsche Bosch to Auschwitz , where he was killed 25 January 1943.
Her sister Sara, born 29 June 1889, left Amsterdam for Utrecht in 1909. About her nothing is further known.
After the wedding, Esther and her husband Salomon Tas lived at Plantage Franschelaan 30 1st floor in Amsterdam. There Salomon passed away 6 July 1935 at the age of 57. He was interred 9 July 1935 in the Jewish Cemetery at Muiderberg
After the passing of her husband, Esther Wijnberg moved 25 September 1935 from Plantage Franschelaan 30 1st floor to house number 4 ground floor, where she lived in with Mrs. Margaretha R. de Bruin. On 3 August 1938 she left Amsterdam for Room Rent Koster at Huijgensstraat 15 in Den Haag. From there she was deported 19 February 1943 to Westerbork where she had to stay in barrack 73. With the first train from Westerbork to Sobibor, she was put on transport 2 March 1943 and on arrival there in Sobibor on 5 March 1943, she was immediately killed.
Sources: City archive of Amsterdam, family registration cards of Eliazer Tas and Salomon Tas; residence card of Plantage Franschelaan 4/Henri Polaklaan 4 in Amsterdam; municipal archive of Den Haag, family registration card of Esther Wijnberg, the file cabinet of the Jewish Council, registration card of Esther Tas-Wijnberg and the list of Jew Transports from the Netherlands (Wikipedia).