Salomon Dingsdag, who was born on 2 February 1900 in Amsterdam, was a son of Levie Dingsdag and Mietje Theeboom. He married on 19 November 1924 Esther Rodrigues Parreira, a daughter of Abraham Parreira and Jetje Brandon. Esther was born in Amsterdam on 1 December 1899 and before her marriage, she was employed as a seamstress. Salomon and Esther had four children together, namely Levie in 1928, Jetje in 1931, Mietje in 1934 and Hendrika in 1938.
The day after their weddingday, Salomon and Esther went living in at Lepelstraat 58 1st floor in Amsterdam with the 2nd wife and widow of Aaron Brandon (1851-1925), Hendrika de Haas, whose stepdaughter Jetje from the previous marriage of Aaron Brandon (to Mietje Drievoet (1848-1877)), was married to Abraham Rodrigues Parreira and who were the parents of Esther. Salomon was a wallpaperer by profession but in later years, the was deployed as a ditcher.
Three years later, on 11 July 1927, Salomon and Esther moved to Lepelstraat 50 ground floor but on 21 September 1938, after still eight-more relocations in the city, they lived again at Lepelstraat, however now at nr. 85 groundfloor. On 4 January 1940 another removal followed to Vrolikstraat 283 groundfloor, from where on 18 September 1942 the entire family, consisting of Salomon, his wife Esther and their children Levie, Jetje, Mietje and Hendrika were taken away to Westerbork and on 21 September deported in a direct transport to Auschwitz.
On arrival there on 24 September 1942, Esther Dingsdag-Rodrigues Parreira and her four children Levie, Jetje, Mietje and Hendrika Dingsdag were immediately carried off to the gas chambers of Auschwitz-Birkenau and murdered. At the other hand, upon arrival of the transport at the “Rampe”(platform) Salomon Dingsdag was selected for forced labor somewhere in the camp.
Unknown is what kind of “work” he had to perform there, nor his exact date of death is known. Therefore, the Dutch Authorities have established after the war, also based on testimonials of survivors and researches, that Salomon Dingsdag no longer could be alive after 31 January 1943. Then the Municipality of Amsterdam was commissioned to draw up a certificate of death for Salomon Dingsdag, in which is stated that he has died in Auschwitz on 31 January 1943.
Sources include the City Archive of Amsterdam, family registration cards of Salomon Dingsdag, archive cards of Salomon Dingsdag and Esther Rodrigues Parreira; Residence card Amsterdam Lepelstraat 58; the file cabinet of the Jewish Council, registration cards of Salomon Dingsdag, Esther Dingsdag-Rodrigues Parreira and their children Levie, Jetje, Mietje and Hendrika Dingsdag and the death certificate nr. 59 for Salomon Dingsdag, made out on 13 October 1950 in Amsterdam from the A-register 54-folio 11verso.