Isaac David was born in Rotterdam on 3 June 1875 as youngest of the six children of Hartog David and Hendrika van der Sluijs. His eldest brother Levie passed away already in 1909 and two of his sisters, Rosetta and Elizabeth died respectively in 1902 and 1938. But Isaac David self and both his other brothers, Simon and Wolf were killed with their families during the Holocaust; Isaac and Simon in Auschwitz and Wolf in Sobibor.
Isaac David earned his living with the exercise of different trades: he was a dealer of fancy articles, warehouse clerk, shop assistant and commercial traveller. He married 20 August 1902 in Rotterddam Elizabeth Velleman, who was born on 26 July 1872 in Rotterdam as a daughter of Barend Hartog Velleman and Carolina Strauss. The couple David-Velleman had two children, namely Simon in 1897 and Hendrika in 1903. Simon however was acknowledged and legalized by Royal Dercree of 1903 after the wedding of his parents in 1902.
In 1932 their daughter Hendrika married Benjamin Barendse and moved with him from her then parental home at Paradijslaan 140b in Rotterdam to Diergaardestraat 47. After several moves they lived per 8 November 1937 at Alewijn Floriszstraat 2b in the district “Het Oude Noorden” of Rotterdam. Her brother Simon was unmarried and lived at home with his parents. He was an office clerk by trade.
After their weddingday in August 1902, Isaac David and Elizabeth Velleman moved into a house in the Van Alkemadestraat 15 in Rotterdam. Then moves followed to Goudschestraat and Gedempte Botersloot and in 1912 they moved to Kloveniersburgwal in Amsterdam, where they stayed with Salomon van Hachgenberg, who had married a sister of Elizabeth, Sientje Velleman. After 15 months, they returned to Goudschestraat in Rotterdam in 1913. After again many moves they ended up on 27 February 1935 at Schieweg 3 in Rotterdam-North.
Whether the move from Rotterdam to Den Haag was a result of the bombardment of Rotterdam on 14 May 1940 is not quite clear but is seems likely. Their last known address became the Van Speijkstraat 141 in Den Haag, where not only Isaac David and his wife Elizabeth with their son Simon lived, but also their daughter Hendrika, their son-in-law Benjamin Barendse and their two grandchildren Isaac and Elizabeth.
On 27 November 1942 the Isaac David and the Benjamon Barendse families were arrested in Den Haag and carried off to Westerbork. Simon was already drafted earlier and deployed in a Jewish Labour camp in the North of the Netherlands; from such a labour camp he was sent to Westerbork and deported to the East on 31 August 1942. At Kozel, located ca.80 km west from Auschwitz, 200 boys and men between 15 and 50 years of age were forced to leave the train to be deployed in the surrounding satellite camps of Auschwitz, among them also Simon David. Eventually he lost his life somewhere in a labour camp in Mid Europe.
Daugher Hendrika, her husband Benjamin Barendse and both their grandchildren were put on transport on 29 January 1943 to Auschwitz and on arrival there on 1 February 1943 immediately killed there.
Isaac David and his wife Elizabeth Velleman were deported from Westerbork to Auschwitz on 4 December 1942, already a week after arrival there, and on arrival in Auschwitz on 7 Devember 1942 immediately killed in the gas chambers of Auschwitz-Birkenau.
Sources include the City Archive of Rotterdam, family registration cards of Isaac David and of Benjamin Barense, a Rotterdam wedding certificate of Barend Hartog Velleman/Carolina Strauss; the file cabinet of the Jewish Council, registration cards of Isaac David, Elizabeth David-Velleman, Simon David, Hendrika Barendse-David, Benjamin Barendse en Isaac and Elizabeth Barendse and the Wikipedia website Jodentransporten vanuit Nederland.nl