Hendrik Jacob Hartogensis, born on 25 April 1867 in Tilburg as a son of Jacobus Jeronimus Hartogensis and Sophia van Ham, married in Den Bosch on 21 April 1903 his cousin Louise Charlotte Hartogensis. She was born on 10 September 1877 in Den Bosch as a daughter of Hendrik Jeronimus Hartogensis and Ernestine Levy. The couple had two children, namely Hendrik Ernst, born in 1904 but passed in 1935 and Edouard Jacques in 1906, who was murdered in Auschwitz together with his parents.
Hendrik Jacob Hartogensis was a merchant in metals. In 1901 he arrived from Tilburg in Rotterdam, together with his brother Samuel, where they lived in the Goudse Wagenstraat 70 and at Stationsplein 7a. And after Hendrik Jacob married his cousin in April 1903 in Den Bosch, also Louise Charlotte Hartogensis came to Rotterdam where they both moved into a house at ‘s-Gravendijkwal 15. There also both their children were born.
On 1 May 1929 Hendrik Jacob and his wife Louise Charlotte moved to Den Haag, where they came to live at the Kanaalweg 3. Edouard Jacques stayed longer in Rotterdam at Provenierssingel 12. He was registered on 19 December 1936 at the address D’Aumeriestraat 29c in Scheveningen. During the first years of the war, he and his parents had to move to the Houtrustweg 26a because of the construction of the German coastal defence.
Their son Hendrik Ernst left however already in 1920 from Rotterdam to Dordrecht, stayed also in Utrecht and returned in 1925 to Rotterdam, from where he was unsubstcribed officially from the Rotterdam Population Register on 20 May 1926 to Vienna. Eventually, Hendrik Ernst Hartogensis passed away in Den Haag on 1 December 1935.
Hendrik Jacob Hartogensis, his wife Louise and son Edouard, were arrested on 19 February 1943 and carried off to Westerbork, where they were housed in barrack 70. Notes on Hendrik Jacob’s registration card Jacob indicate as of 20 February 1943, that the Department of the Interior Affairs is considering adding the person concerned to the “Frederiks en Van Dam list”. The following days, a correspondence arose with requests to and from the Jewish Council in Den Haag for certificates, evidence, photo’s, drawings, etc, all this to escape deportation but on 4 March 1943 his registration card stated: “presumably on transport”(communication of 1 March that actions can be discontinued).
As already on 23 February 1943, Hendrik Jacob Hartogensis, his wife Louise Charlotte and their son Edouard Jacques were deported to Auschwitz in a transport of more than 1100 deportees. It appeared later that there were four survivors of this transport but all the others, including the Hartogensis family were immediately murdered upon arrival on 26 February 1943 in the gas chambers of Auschwitz-Birkenau.
Sources include the Archive of Tilburg/Population Registy/Hartogensis; City Archive of Rotterdam, family registration cards of Hendrik Jacob Hartogensis; Municipal Archive of Den Haag, family registration card of Hendrik Jacob Hartogensis; Death certificate of Den Haag for Hendrik Ernst Hartogenis uit Den Haag, nr. 4161 dated. 2 Dec 1935; the file cabinet of the Jewish Council, registration cards of Hendrik Jacob Hartogensis, Louise Charlotte Hartogensis-Hartogensis and Edouard Jacques Hartogensis; the wikipedia website jodentransporten vanuit Nederland.nl; death certificates A1531 and A1532 from Den Haag of 15 Aug 1950 in which by order of the Court of Den Haag was determined that Hendrik Jacob Hartogensis, Louise Charlotte Hartogensis and Edouard Jacques Hartogensis on of about 26 Februari 1943 have died in the vicinity of Auschwitz with the addition of 11 June 1954 that the dates of death have been established definitivel on 26 February 1943.