Abraham Schnitzler was the eldest of the seven children of Samuel Schnitzler (1833-1913) and Sara Schnitzler (1843-1918). He was a dealer of fancy articles but became later a tailor by trade. He married on 8 September 1920 in Rotterdam, aged 48 the 33-year old daughter of the cattle trader Mozes Kadiks and Roosje Neter. The couple had no children.
When Abraham was yet unmarried, he lived in the Lusthofstraat 60b, but in September 1918 he moved to his parental home in the Almondestraat 24a in Rotterdam, one month before the passing of his mother. Flora Kadiks then lived with her parents too at the Gedempte Botersloot 87b but after she was married on 8 September 1920, she moved in with her husband Abraham.
After the passing of Abraham’s mother, Sara Schnitzler in 1918, his brother David became “head of family”. David then was still unmarried but when he got married himself too on 6 December 1922, his siblings left their parental home, insofar as they did not already live elsewhere. Also Abraham and his wife Flora left Almondestraat 24a and moved to the Jan van Avenessestraat 25b in Rotterdam-West, where they found “lodging”.
Seven more moves followed, until on 26 June 1934 they moved into a house in the Gerard Scholtenstraat 73, located in the district “het Oude Noorden”, which also turned out to be their last known address in Rotterdam
Deportations in Rotterdam through Loods 24 for the so-called “Arbeitseinsatz” (provision of additional work in Germany) started already in July 1942 and on 8 October al Jewish Rotterdam citizens up from the age of 60 fell victim to that. They were transported to Westerbork and from there to the extermination camps. Abraham was already 70 years of age and Flora 55. They undoubtedly have belonged to this group of Rotterdam Jews who were then carried off to Westerbork. On 12 October 1942 Abraham Schnitzler and Flora Kadiks were deported to Auschwitz and on arrival there on 15 October 1942 immediately killed in the gas chambers of Auschwitz-Birkenau.
Sources include the City Archive of Rotterdam, family registration cards of Samuel Schnitzler, Abraham Schnitzler and Mozes Kadiks; wedding certificate from Rotterdam 1920 for Schnitzler/Kadiks; the file cabinet of the Jewish Council, registration cards of Abraham Schnitzler and Flora Schnitzler-Kadiks and additions of visitors of the website.