Naatje Schenkkan, born 14 January 1883 in Amsterdam as a daughter of Levie Schenkkan and Marianne Peper, married 11 August 1907 in Amsterdam Meijer Rood, dealer/vendor and diamond worker and son of Aron Rood and Betje Liest. The couple had four children, namely Elisabeth on 14 December 1907, Arnold on 18 August 1909, Louis on 14 May 1914 and Jonas on 22 Febuary 1916.
Only their son Louis survived the Holocaust and he emigrated to Melbourne Australia after the war – on 6 January 1949 – together with his wife Gerardina Gesina Jacobson, to whom he was married 18 February 1942 in Amsterdam. Naatje Schenkkan, her husband Meijer Rood and their other three children were killed in the Shoah.
Their daughter Elisabeth married 20 August 1930 the tailor Meijer Slager and on 26 December their only child Riekje was born. The whole family Slager had been killed in the Shoah.
Their son Arnold married 10 March 1938 Sara Querido but they had no children. Arnold lost his life in May 1944 in Monowitz, due to pneumonia; his wife survived the Holocaust and was able to return to Amsterdam in August 1945 via Sweden.
Their son Jonas married 8 March 1939 Carolina Velmans and 12 September 1939 their son Marcel was born. This family too was killed in Sobibor on 4 June 1943.
Meijer Rood was a dealer/vendor of all kinds of merchandise but also a diamond worker. After his marriage to Naatje Schenkkan, they lived at Nieuwe Prinsengracht 83 2nd floor in Amsterdam but they have moved several times before they ended up in Rijnstraat 167 in September 1940; they have lived in the Blasiusstraat, Vrolikstraat, Reitstraat and Christiaan de Wetstraat. On 10 January 1942 they moved for the last time to Hunzestraat 73, from where both have been taken to Westerbork on 13 March 1943.
Since 1 February 1943 Meijer Rood worked for the General Service of the Jewish Council in Amsterdam. In Westerbork Meijer en Naatje had to stay in barrack 64 till 18 May 1943, when they were deported to Sobibor and on arrival there on 21 May 1943 immediately killed.
Sources among others: City Archive of Amsterdam, family registration card of Meijer Rood, archvie cards of Meijer Rood, Naatje Schenkkan and of their children Elisabeth, Arnold, Louis and Jonas Rood; the file cabinet of the Jewish Council, registration cards of Meijer Rood, Naatje Rood-Schenkkan, Elisabeth Rood, Arnold Rood and Jonas Rood.