Jacob Ossedrijver, vintner’s clerk, was a son of Hartog Ossedrijver and Henriette Broekman. He married 29 December 1921 in Zaandam Duifje Wolder, who was born 14 September 1888 in Amsterdam as daughter of Jacob Wolder and Elisabeth Uijekruijer. In 1923 their son Harry Jacob was born, who, just like his father, has been killed in the Shoah. Jacob’s wife Duifje Wolder survived the Holocaust.
After his wedding in 1921, Jacob and his wife lived at Bertelmanstraat 92 2nd floor in the Schinkel district of Amsterdam Old-South. On 25 November 1925 the family moved to Saffierstraat 28 2nd floor and in 1932 to Topaasstraat 21 1st floor in the Diamond district of Amsterdam South and became the neighbor of his brother Abraham who lived at nr. 19 2nd floor.
Jacob’s son Harry Jacob Ossedrijver, who was employed as office clerk, was taken 27 March 1943 to Westerbork where he ended up in barrack 64. On 6 April he was deported to Sobibor and on arrival there on 9 April 1943 immediately killed.
Jacob Ossedrijver himself was called in 1942 and employed in one of the 40 Jewish labor camps in the Netherlands, but it is not known in which camp he was sent to. On 31 August 1942 Jacob arrived in Westerbork from such a labor camp and the same day put on transport to Auschwitz. On arrival there on 3 September 1942 Jacob Ossedrijver has been immediately killed.
Sources among others: City Archive of Amsterdam, family registration card and archive cards of Jacob Ossedrijver and Harry Jacob Ossedrijver; website wiewaswie.nl/wedding Ossedrijver/Wolder and the file cabinet of the Jewish Council, registration cards of Jacob Ossedrijver and Harry Jacob Ossedrijver.