Hartog van Handel, the youngest son of Salomon van Handel and Elizabeth David, was born on 6 January 1894 in Rotterdam and he was a commercial traveller by profession. On 27 December 1916 he married Klaartje Sanders in Rotterdam, who was born on 31 March 1893 as the daughter of Jacob Izaak sanders and Wilhelmina Wolf. The couple had two children, namely Salomon Charles in 1918 and Wilhelmina Elizabeth in 1922.
Hartog and Klaartje lived at many addresses in Rotterdam; they started in the 2e Weenastraat 26b and after some 8 removals they ended up per 30 March 1938 at the Essenburgsingel 100b. Meanwhile, both their children were employes as representatives.
Most likely, the family has made efforts to escape deportation by going into hiding, which only seems to be succeeded for daughter Wilhelmina Elizabeth. The other members of the family were arrested on 1 March 1944 and carried off to Westerbork, were they ended up as “penal cases” in the penal barrack 67. Already two days later, on 3 March 1944 they were deported as “penal cases” with a so-called “penal transport” to Auschwitz.
On arrival there on 6 March 1944, Hartog and his wife Klaartje were immediately killed in the gas chambers of Auschwitz-Birkenau. Their son Salomon Charles however was selected as a forced labourer but it is not known when and where exactly he has lost his life. It is therefore that after the war, by order of the Ministry of Justice , the Municipality of Rotterdam on 1 March 1952 has drawn up a certificate of death for Salomon Charles van Handel, in which has been established that he has died in Mid Europe on 31 July 1944.
Sources include the City Archive of Rotterdam, family registration cards of Salomon van Handel (1862) and Hartog van Handel (1894); wedding certificate from Rotterdam for Hartog van Handel/Klaartje Sanders; the file cabinet of the Jewish Council, registration cards of Hartog van Handel, Klaartje van Handel-Sanders; Salomon Charles van Handel (1918) and Wilhelmina Elizabeth van Handel; the Wikipedia listing of Jodentransporten vanuit Nederland and the certificate of death nr. 211 of 1 March 1952 from Rotterdam for Salomon Charles van Handel.