Salomon Kloot, born in 1904 in Amsterdam was a son of Hartog Kloot and Saartje van der Kop. He married 29 September 1937 in Amsterdam Alida Mossel, who was 10 years older, a daughter of Emanuel Mossel and Jansje Wonder. The Kloot couple had no children.
Before the Kloot family arrived 23 January 1909 in Amsterdam, where they lived at Vrolikstraat 303 3rd floor, Salomon, his parents and sibs resided in Hilversum. At some point Salomon lived already on his own at Rijnstraat 37 in Amsterdam but after his marriage to Alida Mossel in 1937, they too went to Vrolikstraat 303 3rd floor.
Salomon and Alida moved however 3 January 1939 to Saffierstraat 14 1st floor, where lived at the 2nd floor Alida’s sister Hendrika Mossel and her husband Izaak Gaarkeuken, but also her unmarried sister Elisabeth Mossel plus her aunt Petronella Wonder, the sister of their mother Jansje Wonder. Nevertheless, Salomon and Alida moved again 23 May 1940, now to Kribbestraat 33 ground floor.
Salomon was a tailor by trade and he was employed at the textile factory of Hollandia Kattenburg. There, on 11 November 1942 a razzia took place and Salomon plus all other Jewish personnel, in total 367 Jewish staff were taken away. Some of the Jews at Hollandia Kattenburg, 130 people, were made suspect by SS-officer Rauter and arrested because of so-called sabotage and taken to the penitentiary of Scheveningen. There they were so mistreated that they confessed their "crimes", although they had not committed them. Among those falsely accused was also Salomon Kloot.
Salomon Kloot was transferred from the penitentiary of Scheveningen to Westbork on 26 November 1942, from where he was deported 30 November 1942 with the so-called “Kattenburg transport” to Auschwitz. This transport however stopped at Kozel, ±80 km west from Auschwitz, were 170 men between 15 and 50 years forcedly had to leave the train. They were employed as forced labourers in the surrounding satellite camps of Auschwitz. It is not unlikely that Salomon Kloot was one of them, as he eventually – probably by hardship or diseases lost his life in the Auschwitz region or in Auschwitz 28 February 1943.
Salomon’s wife Alida Mossel however stayed behind 11 November 1942 at Kribbestraat 33. But 18 May 1943 she still moved to Daniel Willinkplein 9 (nowadays Victorieplein) were “Pension Cohen” was established which was led by Rosalie Cohen-Cohen, who lived there with her family at the same address. From there Alida Kloot-Mossel has been deported 17 July 1943 to Westerbork and put on transport 20 July with the 19th and last train with more than 2200 other victims to Sobibor and on arrival there 23 July 1943 immediately killed.
City Archive of Amsterdam, family registration cards of Hartog Kloot and Salomon Kloot, archive cards of Salomon Kloot and Alida Mossel; residence card of Daniel Willinkplein 9/Victorieplein in Amsterdam; website Joods Amsterdam/Hollandia Kattenburg; List of Jewtransports from the Netherlands and the file cabinet of the Jewish Council, registration cards of Salomon Kloot and Elisabeth Kloot-Mossel.