Emanuel Abram, born on 29 August 1918 in Amsterdam, was a son of Moses Abram and Rebecca de Paauw. Emanuel was a diamond worker but was also employed as a warehouse clerk. On 15 July 1942 he married Vrouwtje van Geldere in Amsterdam, who was born there on 19 April 1921. She was a daughter of Hartog van Geldere and Fijtje Parsser. The Abram-van Geldere couple had a son Robert on 21 March 1943; he survived the Holocaust.
Before Emanuel Abram was married, he lived at Linneausparkweg 73 ground floor and since April 1936 Vrouwtje van Geldere lived with her parents at Ceintuurbaan 219 1st floor in Amsterdam. Also the widow of Levie Parsser – Fijtje’s Parsser’s father – lived in there. And after the wedding ceremony in July 1942, Emanuel too came living in at the address Ceintuurbaan 219 1st floor.
Presumably, baby Robert after his birth was accomodated already elsewhere, because in the night of 13 to 14 may 1943, only his parents, Emanuel Abram and Vrouwtje van Geldere were arrested and carried off to the concentration camp Vught, where they were registered the 14th, Emanuel as a painter and diamond worker. Both stayed in Vught until 2 July, after which they were sent to Westerbork.
On 3 July 1943, both arrived in Westerbork, where they had to wait for their deportation, which took place on 6 July. Emanuel Abram and Vrouwtje van Geldere were put on transport with more than 2400 other deportees. Upon arrival there on 9 July 1943, Emanuel Abram and Vrouwtje Abram-van Geldere and all other deportees were murdered immediately in the gas chambers. There were no survivors.
Sources include the City Archive of Amsterdam, archive cards of Emanuel Abram and Vrouwtje van Geldere; the file cabinet of the Jewish Council, registration cards of Emanuel Abram, Vrouwtje Abram-van Geldere and Robert Abram; website ITS Arolson/camp card Vught of Emanuel Abram and the website jodentransporten vanuit Nederland.nl.