Amalia van der Molen was a daughter of Meijer van der Molen and Esther Appel. She was 29 years of age when she married the 35-year old Salomon Wolff in Amsterdam on 25 November 1926, a son of Marcus Wolff and Marianna Boom. The couple had one daughter, Nanny Amalia, who was born in Amsterdam on 9 February 1928.
Salomon Wolff was merchant and manufacturer of dry goods. After his marriage he lived with Amalia in Linneausstraat 81A-upper house in Amsterdam-East but moved 10 June 1931 to Heerengracht 70 parterre in the centre of Amsterdam. On 27 September 1939 they left the city centre for Amsterdam-South, where they moved in a house in Zuider Amstellaan 142 2nd floor.
Amalia and her daughter Nanny were taken 22 October 1942 to Westerbork where they were put on transport already the next day, 23 October to Auschwitz. On arrival there on 26 October 1942 both were immediately killed in the gas chamber of Auschwitz-Birkenau.
Her husband Salomon however has been registered only on 7 November 1942 where he stayed for four months. Only 17 March 1943 Salomon was deported with the 3rd transport to Sobibor where he was killed immediately upon arrival there on 20 March 1943.
Sources among others: City Archive of Amsterdam, family registration card and archive card of Salomon Wolff, family registration card of Meijer van der Molen and the file cabinet of the Jewish Council, registration cards of Salomon Wolff, Amalia Wolff-van der Molen and Nanny Wolff.