Salomon van IJssel , born 22 November 1877 in Noordwijk, was a son of Daniel van IJssel and Louisa Wolf. On 17 November 1916 he married in Veghel Anna Wolf, born in Uden on 31 December 1881, a daughter of Nathan Wolf and Rosa Hes. Up from 1915, Salomon van IJssel lived in Den Haag and was a poulterer by profession. After the wedding in 1916, Anna Wolf joined him in Den Haag and had with Salomon three children there: Daniel in 1918, Rosa in 1919 and Louise in 1920.
After having lived at Korte Houtstraat, at Stille Veerkade and at Grote Marktstraat, the family moved into a house at Oranjeplein 47 on 2 March 1927, where Anna Wolf however passed away 5 March 1934. As a widower then, Salomon van IJssel had to accommodate his children elsewhere.
The 17-year old Daniel left Den Haag for Veghel on 3 September 1935, where he stayed at the address Middegaal A279 (an old neighbourhood located north of the center of Veghel). After 16 months, on 8 January 1937 he returned to Den Haag, to his father at Oranjeplein 47.
Rosa was accommodated 6 February 1936 in the S.A.Rudelsheim Foundation, which was located at Verdilaan 10 in Hilversum, an institution for mental handicapped children. Rosa then was 16 years old, but it is not known whether she came down there as staff or patient. But at the time of the mandatory registration of all Jews in the Netherlands since January 1941, Rosa again was registered at the address Oranjeplein 47 in Den Haag.
Louise van IJssel was lodged on 22 May 1935 in the Israelitic Orphanage at Pletterijstraat 66 in Den Haag, but on 2 March 1939 she returned home to her father, brother and sister at Oranjeplein 47. (read about her fate in “stories”on her own personal page of this website).
During the summer of 1942, the German occupiers ordered that all Jews had to leave Den Haag. The first raids and round-ups in Den Haag began 22 August 1942, after an earlier call for 4000 Jews to report, only 1200 actually responded at the Staatsspoor Station, including Daniel and Rosa van IJssel . On 120 August 1942, Daniel and his sister Rosa were registered in Westerbork and on 21 August deported to Auschwitz, where they arrived on ±24 August 1942.
The transports took place under the guise of forced “Arbeits Einsatz” (labor commitment) in Eastern Europe and consisted at first mainly of young men, later transports also consisted of women and children. Whether Daniel and Rosa on arrival in Auschwitz have been selected as forced labourers, or not, is unknown. It is also unknown on which date exactly and under what conditions they there have lost their lives. Therefore, the Dutch Ministry of Justice ordered the Municipality of Den Haag after the war to draw up certificates of death for Daniel van IJssel and for Rosa van IJssel, in which was established that they both have died in Auschwitz on 30 September 1942.
Salomon van IJssel has been carried off from Den Haag to Westerbork and registered "only" 19 February 1943. On 2 March he was deported to Sobibor, where he was immediately killed on arrival there in the gas chambers on 5 March 1943.
Sources among others: Municipal Archive of Den Haag, family registration card of Salomon van IJssel; Website Open Archieven, birth certificate nr. 1 dated 2 January 1882 from Uden and death certificate 912 dated 6 March 1934 from Den Haag, both for Anna Wolf; the file cabinet of the Jewish Council, registration cards of Salomon van IJssel , Daniel and Rosa van IJssel; website S.A. Rudelsheimstichting; Wikipedia website Joods Weeshuis Pletterijstraat 66 Den Haag; Wikipedia website Middegaal Vehel; website Stichting Joods Erfgoed Den Haag; certificate of death for Daniel van IJssel, C97 dated 27 May 1953 and for Rosa van IJssel, C3056 dated 10 November 1950 and the Wikipedia website Jodentransporten vanuit Nederland.nl.