Jakob Slomovits, his wife and children were born in Sighetu Marmației in Romania, also known as Sighet, a town in the Maramures district in Romania, located near the border with Ukraine, gelegen in the Theissvalleyl. Jacob Slomovits came to the Netherlands and arrived 16 June 1933 in Den Haag, where in the beginning, he lived shortly at Pletterijkade 3a. After one month, on 12 July 1933, he moved to Oranjelaan 35, where his wife and children followed him to Den Haag on 5 January 1934. Per 8 November 1934, the complete family was registered at the address Rijswijkseplein 21 in Den Haag, which became their permanent address in Holland.
The family registration card of Jakob Slomovits of the Municpal Archive of Den Haag states his date of birth as 30 October 1891 and his profession as manufacturer of knitted goods. His wife Perl Feurwerker was born 27 February 1896 and their children Elisabeth (13-12-1918), Rosa ( Rozsa 18-10-1920), Heinrich (5-7-1922), Eugen (Jenö 30-11-1924), Bertha (Berta 24-5-1926) en Frederika (Frikerika 4-8-1928).
Jakob, his wife Perl and four of their children, Rozsa, Jenö, Berta en Frikerika were registered in Westerbork on 17 September 1942 and the next day, 18 September put on transport. Not to Auschwitz but according notes on all registration cards of the Slomovits family, it has appeared that Jakob, his wife and children “would have been repatriated to Romania”, according a list of the Expo(situr) of 24 August 1943.
Two of the children, namely Heinrich and Elisabeth may never have been in Westerbork. It appeared from archives of the Jewish Council that Heinrich and Elisabeth surely have been registered but no date of transport/deportation nor a date of registration in Westerbork was recorded on their cards. However they may have been repatriated too.
Repatriation sometimes occurred with Hungarian and Romanian citizens of origin, what went via the German “Zentralstelle” in Amsterdam, whereby a list of names of the persons concerned was drawn up by the Expositur, the Jewish Council of Amsterdam.
Romania, and also Hungary, wanted their citizens back to their own country, Jewish or non-Jewish, after which it was decided what would happen to them. It is therefore possible that the Slomovits family from Romania still have been deported to Auschwitz or another concentration camp where they could have lost their lives or that they have survived the war, but that is however unknown.
Sources: the archive of the Jewish Council, registration cards of the Slomovits family and the family registration card of the Municipal Archive of Den Haag and an explanation regarding “repatriation” by Raymond Schütz,