Biography

About Abraham Ossedrijver and his son Hartog.

Abraham Ossedrijver, working as warehouse clerk, was a son of Hartog Ossedrijver and Henriette Broekman. He married 24 December 1924 in Amsterdam Rebecca Booleman, who was born 28 February 1902 in Amsterdam as daughter of Isaac Booleman and Betje Toorenberg. In 1926 the couple had a son named Hartog, who has lost his life during the Shoah, just like his father. Rebecca Booleman however passed away already 25 January 1940 in Amsterdam at the age of 37.

After his marriage, Abraham lived with his wife in the Govert Flinckstraat 339 but moved 7 October 1925 to Ceramstraat in the Dutch Indies district of Amsterdam-East. After another six removals, the family came living per 10 November 1938 in the Topaasstraat 19 2nd floor in Amsterdam-South

Abraham’s 16-year old son Hartog – actually still a scholar – was per 23 July 1942 employed as office clerk at the department for personell of the Jewish Council at Niewe Keizersgrachte 58. Because of his job he was “exempted from deportation until further notice” and therefore also his father Abraham was temporarily exempted.

However on 24 July 1943 father and son were still taken to Westerbork where they had to stay in barrack 60 and put on transport to Auschwitz on 31 August with more than 1000 other deportees. On arrival there on 2 September 1943, Abraham and Hartog were not sent to the gas chambes but selected for “work”.

Whether they had to work as hard laborers in- or outside the camp and where, as well the exact date of their death is not known. It is therefore that after the war the Dutch Ministry of Justice ordered the municipality of Amsterdam to draw up a certificate of death for each of them, in which has been established that Abraham Ossedrijver and Hartog Ossedrijver have died in Auschwitz on 31 March 1944.

Sources among others: City Archive of Amsterdam, family registration card and archive cards of Abraham Ossedrijver and Hartog Ossedrijver and the certificate of death nr. 357 from register 1, folio 60-verso dated 25 Jan 1940 for Rebecca Booleman, nr. 319 from the A-register 83, folio 55 dated 10 Aug 1951 for Abraham Ossedrijver and nr. 42 from A-register 83, folio 8-verso dated 4 Aug 1951, made out by the municipality of Amsterdam; and the file cabinet of the Jewish Council, registration cards of Abraham and Hartog Ossedrijver and an addition of a visitor of the website.

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