Salomon Worms was a son of Leendert Worms and Sara Amanda de Leeuw. He was born on 7 April 1879 in Amsterdam and he became a diamond worker by profession. On 21 January 1900 he married Mietje Furth in Amsterdam, who was born on 14 Novembwe 1875 in London as a daughter of Levie Furth and Rachel Dekker.
The Worms couple had eleven children, all born in Amsterdam. The eldest was Leendert, who was born on 18 September 1902. Then Levie followed on 10 October 1903, then Sara Amanda on 6 February 1905, Rachel on 30 December 1906, Izak on 24 April 1908, Jacob on 25 January 1910, Betsie on 3 September 1911, Martje op 1 January 1913, Rosette on 1 July 1914, Abraham op 18 September 1916 and the last one was Marcus Izak who was born on 3 June 1918.
Four children have died in childhood: those were Izak, Betsie, Abraham en Marcus Izak. Levie passed away in 1933 in Amsterdam, unmarried just as Rachel, who passed in 1938. Sara Amanda has survived the Shoah and married Joseph Vos after the war and emigrated to Canada. The other surviving child was Rosette, who after the war took in her family the surving daughter of Martje Worms and Samuel van Bever, Sientje. But Leendert, Jacob and Martje were killed during the Shoah, just as their parents Salomon and Mietje Worms.
Salomon was a diamond worker and stayed with wife and children often in Belgium. Since 1909 they lived in Deurne (Antwerp) and Borgerhout but returned regularly in Amsteram. Over the years, Salomon and Mietje have moved in Amsterdam dozens of times. In 1936, when the family lived in the Retiefstraat, Salomon Worms was a fruiterer at the street market of the Dapperstraat in Amsterdam-East. Up from January 1939 they lived in the Blasiusstraat 148 3rd floor but moved for the last time on 13 March 1940 to no. 133 3rd floor in the same street. This would be their last known address in the Netherlands too.
Data from the cards of file cabinet of the Jewish Council show, that Salomon Worms and Mietje Worms-Furth were brought into camp Westerbork without being called up for the so-called “Arbeitseinsatz” (provision of additional work in Germany). Further notes on their cards show that they have not been registered in Westerbork too.
This was undoubtedly due to the major raids at the beginning of October 1942 and the liquidation of the Jewish Labor Camps, as a result of which some 15.000 Jews were brought into Westerbork in those days so it must have been rather chaotic there. Nevertheless, Salomon Worms and his wife Mietje Worms-Furth were put on transport to Auschwitz on 2 October 1942 and upon arrival there on 5 October 1942, they were immediately gassed in the gas chambers of Auschwitz-Birkenau.
Sources include the Felix Archive of Antwerp, dossier of foreigners no. 1170-272882 of the Municipality of Deurne and the dossiers 2796 and 3031 of the Municipality Borgerhout on the name of Salomon Worms and Mietje Furth; The City Archive of Amsterdam, family registration cards of Salomon Worms and Levy Furth, archive card of Salomon Worms, the file cabinet of the Jewish Council, registration cards of Salomon Worms and Mietje Worms-Furth and the Wikipedia listying of Jodentransporten vanuit Nederland.nl.