Hendrina Schaap, born 20 November 1905 in Amsterdam, was a daughter of Wolf Schaap and Rebecca Sealtiel. At the age of 18, she was married on 16 April 924 to the 19-year old postman Aaron Swaab, a son of Joseph Swaab and Jetje Berkhof, but the marriage ended in a divorce, which was dissolved in Amsterdam on 2 December 1924. Already before the pronounciation, Hendrina left on 3 July 1924 fo Antwerp on 3 July 1924, and lived in Tuinbouwstraat 22 in Borgerhout with the family of Hartog Meijer Park and Sara de Leon where she worked as housekeeper. The Park family had been living in Borgerhout already since 1904 and were the parents of her future 2nd spouse Emanuel Park.
The Dossier of Foreigners of the City of Antwerp shows, that Hendrina since 18 July 1924 already lived in an adulterous relationship with Emanuel Park, to whom she got married only 8 October 1925, after her divorce from Aaron Swaab. It was her 2nd marriage and she was 19 years of age then. A few months after her official divorce, her illegitimate son Meijer was born on 10 March 1925, who was registered in the birth register of Amsterdam as Meijer Schaap. Hendrina and Emanuel together had another daughter, namely Rebecca Park, born 23 July 1926 in Amsterdam.
Per 18 December 1927 was Emanuel Park registered at the address Draakstraat 32 in Antwerp and lived again separate from his wife Hendrina, who stayed that date with her parents Wolf Schaap and Rebecca Sealtiel in Weesperstraat 51 in Amsterdam. She returned to Antwerp 18 January 1928 and moved with her husband a house in Nottebohmstraat 22.
On 9 May 1928, Meijer Schaap was brought back to Amsterdam where he was accommodated with his grandparents Wolf Schaap en Rebecca Sealtielk, who lived in Weesperstraat 51 in Amsterdam. Hendrina returned to Nottebohmstraat 22 in Antwerp, where her husband provided for their maintenance as a diamond cutter. However, Hendrina also brought her daughter Rebecca Park to Amsterdam; on 8 January 1929 Rebecca was accommodated with her grandparents Schaap in Weesperstraat too.
On 23 February 1931, Hendrina lived in a furnished room in Van Immerzeelstraat 22 in Antwerp. Emanuel Park is in Paris and Hendrina has been abandoned by her husband. To provide for her support, she pretended to be an artist and worked as dancer in bars in Antwerp, which made her object of several inquiries from the Antwerp Police. In 1931 she would have violated Art. 1 of the Codex of the Municipal Police Regulations, because according to the Antwerp Police, she left for Paris on 5 June 1931 “to meet her husband” without reporting a date of return.
Eventually, the marriage of Emanuel and Hendrina did not last too and ended in a divorce. Emanuel Park had returned from Paris to Amsterdam on February 1932, where on 6 June 1932, in the absence of Emanuel Park and by verdict of the District Court of Amsterdam, the marriage was dissolved and on 29 July 1932 registered in the Civil Registery of Amsterdam.
Hendrina Schaap afterwards lived shortly at Nieuwe Keizersgracht 13 in Amsterdam and moved in with per parents then in Nieuwe Kerkstraat 101, moved 3 August 1937 with them to Waterlooplein 80 1st floor. On 30 March 1942 she moved again – this time to Jodenbreestraat 81 2nd floor. Her son Meijer Schaap joined his mother but her daughter Rebecca remained at Waterlooplein with her grandparents Wolf Schaap and Rebecca Sealtiel.
Hendrina Schaap was not exempted from deportation but worked as vendor woman in textiles as fellow worker at the Jewish Council for the department Distribution of Textiles and had a standing place at the street market at Waterlooplein. Also her son Meijer, aged 18, student at the conservatory, worked for the Jewish Council at the department bread supply. He too was not exempted from deportation.
From her home address Jodenbreestraat, Hendrina was taken15 April 1943 to Westerbork. Her son Meijer however had been registered there already 23 March. She stayed in barrack 61 and Meijer in barrack 60. On 18 May both were put on transport to Sobibor, where on arrival on 21 May 1943, they were immediately killed.
Sources among others: City Archive of Amsterdam, family registration cards of Wolf Schaap and Aaron Swaab, archive cards of Hendrina Schaap, Meijer Schaap and Rebecca Park; the Dossier of Foreigners of the City of Antwerp, nr. 155311, images 458-488 and the file cabinet of the Jewish Council, registration cards of Hendrina Schaap and Meijer Schaap.