Samuel Delden was the eighth of the ten children of Jacob Delden and Leentje Ossedrijver. He was born on 23 December 1912 in Amsterdam and he became radio engineer by profession. On 10 May 1933 the 20-year old Samuel married the furrier Sara Loos, the also 20-year old daughter of Jochem Loos and Rebecca Sarlui, who was born on 11 April 1913. The couple had three children, namely Rebecca on 17 September 1933, Lena on 15 December 1934 and Jacob on 21 January 1937.
After the wedding, Samuel and Sara lived in the President Brandstraat 8 1st floor in Amsterdam-East but moved to the Ben Viljoenstraat 6 2nd floor in January 1934. On 16 May 1936 they moved into a house in the Christiaan de Wetstraat 33 1st floor, which would became later also their last known address in the Netherlands.
Samuel’s mother Leentje Ossedrijver, lived after the passing of her husband Jacob Delden since October 1929 in the Ben Viljoenstraat 7 2nd floor. However her daughter Eva, who had become the second spouse of Hartog Wijnschenk on 29 May 1941, fell pregnant of their first child and Leentje Ossedrijver decided on 25 April 1942 to move in with Hartog and Eva, who lived at Amstellaan 62 1st floor in Amsterdam-South.
However, Hartog Wijnschenk was arrested on 12 October 1942 and Eva and her mother stayed behind at Amstellaan 62 1st floor till Eva has given birth on 18 November 1942 of baby Arnold Wijnschenk. Hartog Wijnschenk had been deported to “the East” already on 16 October 1942 and as a force labourer he lost his life eventually in Polish Malapane on 28 February 1942. He never has known his son Arnold.
Amsterdam Jews were also forced to move. It appears from internal information of the Jewish Council of 13 November 1942 that “from now on, the authorities will announce about 10 families a day, who have to move with their furniture to the Transvaal district. This mainly concerns families, living in the River district, Plan South”. On 15 October, an ordinance was also issued that obliged all Jews in “Judenviertel III” (River district) to move to “Judenviertel II” (Transvaal district). I wasn’t easy to enforce, but the grip got stronger and stronger. With massive raids, especially in the summers of 1942 and 1943 and a concluding raid in the Transvaal district later in 1943, the Germans managed to get the vast majority of the Jews herdered in Amsterdam on the train to Weserbork and from there to the extermination camps. (source: article Rob Snijders/magazine Ons Amsterdam of 18 June 2014).
Eva Wijnschenk-Delden, her baby Arnold and her mother Leentje then moved in on 5 April 1943 with the family of Eva's brother Samuel, who lived at Christiaan de Wetstraat 33 1st floor, located in the Transvaal district of Amsterdam-East. On the basis of a decree of Rauter of 14 May 1943, which prohibited Jews no more to stay in the city of Amsterdam from 21 May 1943, except those with a Sperre stamp of the “Zentralstelle”, Samuel Delden, his wife Sara Loos and their children Rebecca, Lena and Jacob Delden and also the resident Eva Wijnschenk-Delden, baby Arnold Wijnschenk and mother Leentje Delden-Ossedrijver, had to report to the Marechaussee barracks at the Polderweg on 20 May 1943.
They were then deported to Westerbork where they ended up in barrack 55 and on 25 May 1943 put on transport to Sobibor, together with more than 2850 other victims. On arrival there on 28 May 1943, all were immediately murdered in the gas chambers. The total transport included 2862 men, women and children: there were no survivors.
Sources include the City Archive of Amsterdam, family registration card of Samuel Delden, archive cards of Samuel Delden and Sara Loos; residence card of the Christiaan de Wetstraat 33 Amsterdam; the file cabinet of the Jewish Council, registration cards of Samuel Delden, Sara Delden-Loos, Rebecca, Lena en Jacob Delden, Eva Wijnschenk-Delden, Arnold Wijnschenk and Leentje Delden-Ossedrijver and the wikipedia website Jodentransporten vanuit Nederland.nl.