Joseph Jacob van Creveld was a son of Philip Jacob van Creveld and Roosje David and born in Rotterdam on 25 January 1913. He was a cattletrader by profession and married in Rotterdam on 14 September 1938 Saartje Dagloonder, born in Amsterdam on 17 April 1911 as a daughter of Abraham Dagloonder and Mietje van der Sluis. Joseph Jacob and Saartje had two children together, namely Mirjam on 2 February 1939, who however died in Rotterdam on 2 January 1941, 2 years old and Roza, who was born there on 10 January 1942.
Since July 1936, Joseph Jacob van Creveld “lodged” in the Bergpolderstrtaat 62a in Rotterdam. After the wedding, Joseph Jacob and Saartje Dagloonder moved in with his parents at Oostzeedijk 243a, who lived there already up from October 1934, but after six months, on 17 June 1938, Joseph Jacob’s parents moved to Hofdijk 33b and Joseph and Saartje went along with them. Not long afterwards, on 14 September 1938 they were assigned another house at Vijverhofstraat 109b, located in the Agniese district of Rotterdam, which became also their last known address.
On the basis of the arrest of the Van Creveld family in January 1944, it could be deduced that they had gone into hiding, which allowed their daughter Roza to survive the Holocaust. But it was not until January 12, 1944, that Joseph Jacob and his wife Saartje were arrested and taken to Westerbork, where they were registered and locked up in the penal barrack 67.
On 25 January 1944 they were both deported to Auschwitz with a so-called “penal transport”, and upon arrival there on 28 January 1944, Saartje van Creveld-Dagloonder was immediately murdered in the gas chambers of Auschwitz-Birkenau. Joseph Jacob van Creveld obviousliy was still selected as a forced laborer; his death there was confirmed by the Ministry of Justice and recorded in his death certificate from Rotterdam, no. 177 of 16 February 1952, as on May 31, 1944 in Auschwitz.
Sources include the Rotterdam City Archives, family registration cards of Joseph Jacob van Creveld and Philip Jacob van Creveld; the file cabinet of the Jewish Council, registration cards of Joseph Jacob van Creveld, Saartje van Creveld-Dagloonder and Roza van Creveld and additions and information from visitors and users of the website.