Hanna Ossendrijver was the youngest daughter of Abraham Ossendrijver and Henriëtte Citroen. She was born 5 October 1918 in Amsterdam and married 15 July 1942 Abraham Cardozo, a son of Mozes Cardozo and Henriette Pais.
Abraham was a bookkeeper at a clothing factory and Hanna worked as a seamstress in an atelier. The young wedded couple however lived apart from each other, also after their wedding: Hanna in Swammerdamstraat 40 3rd floor and Abraham Cardozo lived at Meerhuizenstraat 6 1st floor in Amsterdam-South.
On 21 July 1942 were both put on transport from Westerbork to Auschwitz. The transport of more than 930 deportees arrived there on 24 July and Hanna as well Abraham were selected as “labourers” , to perform hard labor somewhere in- or outside the camp.
When exactly Hanna and Abraham have lost their lives and where, is not known. Therefore the Dutch Ministry of Justice ordered after the war the Municipality of Amsterdam to draw up certificates of death for both of them in which has been established that Hanna Cardozo-Ossendrijver and Abraham Cardozo have lost their lives on 30 September 1942 in Auschwitz.
Sources among others: City Archive of Amsterdam, family registration card of Abraham Ossendrijver, archive cards of Abraham Ossendrijver, Hanna Ossendrijver and Abraham Cardozo; website wikipedia.nl/jodentransporten vanuit nederland and the file cabinet of the Jewish Council, registration cards of Hanna Cardozo-Ossendrijver and Abraham Cardozo.