Antje Schaap was a daughter of Wolf Schaap and his first wife Leentje Stuwert. She married 27 October 1876 in Amsterdam Hartog van West, a diamond polisher and son of Mozes Samson van West and Esther Mozes van Kleef. The couple had a daughter, Leentje, who was born in Amsterdam on 9 March 1877.
Since 2 July 1892 the Van West family lived at Van Leriusstraat 55 in Antwerp. Hartog van West worked at the diamond factory of Coolemans in the Diercxensstraat in Antwerp. They returned to Amsterdam in 1914 and lived at various addresses in the city. Hartog van West however passed away 20 June 1935. He was interred the next day in the Jewish Cemetery at Muiderberg.
Antje Schaap, now widowed, moved over 6 March 1936 to Plantage Kerklaan 6 1st floor and lived in with her son-in-law Hersch Pfeffer, who had married in 1912 her daughter Leentje. Hersch Pfeffer has been deported already in July 1942 to Auschwitz and lost his life there in August. Antje self and her daughter Leentje were taken together 11 November 1942 to Westerbork. On 16 November both were put on transport to Auschwitz where Antje Schaap and her daughter were immediately killed on arrival there on 19 November 1942.
Sources among others: City Archive of Amsterdam, family registration card of Wolf Schaap, archive cards of Antje Schaap, Leentje van West and Hersch Pfeffer; Overgenomen delen (copied volumes) 1892-1920/re Hartog van West; the Dossier of Foreigners of the City of Antwerp, nr. 75323, image 219-223; website Akevoth/Burialpermits/Hartog van West and the file cabinet of the Jewish Council, registration card of Antje van West-Schaap.