Salomon Swaalep was a son of Simon Swaalep and Rachel Bak. He was born on 11 July 1905 in Amsterdam and worked as warehouse clerk. On 7 April 1924 Salomon was tested for the militia but disapproved because of flat feet en declared permanently unfit for the militia. He then lived at Roeterstraat 6 3rd floor in Amsterdam.
On 1 March 1932 he married Marie Cohen in Berchem (Belgium), a daughter of Levie Cohen and Branca Bed and lived with her in the Joris Helleputtestrata 13 in Borgerhout. On 31 October 1942 was Salomon deported from Mechelen to Auschwitz with convoy 16, which has arrived there on 3 November 1942. Since there came nothing known about what happened to him and his death, there has been established that eventually he has died in Auschwitz on 1 December 1944.
His wife Marie Cohen survived the Holocaust and after the war she remarried Elias Theeboom from Rotterdam, who passed away in Sydney Australia on 4 December 1965. Marie Cohen passed also in Sydney on 9 December 1996 at the old age of 90 years.
Sources include the City Archive of Amsterdam, archive card of Salomon Swaalep, the Militia register Amsterdam 182701940 for Salomon Swaalep; the Memorial of the Deportation of the Belgian Jews, pages 28 and 29/ the 16th and 17th convoy and information by Mrs. D. Bobbe.