Philip Root was the unmarried son of Mozes Root and Leentje Frank. He wsa born in Amsterdam on 17 may 1896 and worked as warehouse clerk and later also as waiter in Theatre Carré in Amsterdam.
Philip was the 2nd youngest ton of the seven children of Mozes and Leentje. His parents werr married in Paramaribo in 1875 and there in Surinam, his three sisters Esther, Elisabeth Lea and Hanna Marie were born and also his brother Abraham Hartog.
In 1891 the family returned to the Netherlands where they lived shortly in Amsterdam. There his brother Alexander Leon was born but shortly thereafter they moved to Arnhem, in 1892 to Rheden and in 1895 they came back to Amsterdam, where Philip was born in 1896, and also in May 1898 a little brother Jacques Marcus. However, he died already in June, only one month old.
Philip’s parents died in Amsterdam, shortly after each other; his father in June 1923 and his mother in October of that same year. Both were interred in the Jewish Cemetery in Diemen. Except Esther, who died already before the war, all his other siblings have been murdered during the Shoah.
Philip has lived at around eight different addresses in Amsterdam, however in 1930 he was admitted for two months in “Het Apeldoornsche Bosch”, (The Central Israelitic Psychiatric Hospital in Apeldoorn). His last address was Tugelaweg 97 in Amsterdam-East. On 31 July 1931 he was admitted again in “Het Apeldoornsche Bosch” where he eventually passed away on 28 December 1940.
Sources among others: City Archive of Amsterdam, family registration cards of Mozes Root and Philip Root; website Akevoth/Mokum/Burial-permits, grave Mozes Root and website hetstenenarchief.nl, grave Leentje Frank.