Johanna Meijers, a daughter of Abraham Meijers and Helena Kaufman, was born in Doetinchem on 1 April 1919. She married on 24 August 1938 in Arnhem the bicycle dealer Wolf Nathan, a son of Levie Nathan and Anna Nathans. Wolf was born on 2 August 1905 in Arnhem.
The couple Nathan-Meijers lived in Arnheim at Nieuwstad 28, where also their son Louis Nathan was born. After the compulsory registration of all the Jews in the Netherlands, the couple decided to go into hiding. Most likely, the little Louis was accommodated elsewhere than were his parents were; he survived the Holocaust and after the war taken into the family of his grandparents Meijers where he was raised further.
Somewhere in the summer of 1943, Wolf Nathan and his wife Johanna Meijers presumably were betrayed and arrested and on 4 June 1943 carried off to Westerbork, where they were locked up in the penal barrack 67. On 8 June they were deported in a so-called “penal-transport” to Sobibor and upon arrival there on 11 June 1943 immediately murdered in the gas chambers there.
Sources include the website Open Archieven/marriages Abraham Meijers/Helena Kaufman and Johanna Meijers/Wolf Nathan; website hetstenenarchief.nl/graves Abraham Meijers and Helena Kaurman; the file cabinet of the Jewish Council, registration cards of Johanna Nathan-Meijers and Wolf Nathan.