Sara de Vries, a daughter of Benjamin Simon Levie de Vries and Marianne de Metz, was born on 11 May 1865 in Amsterdam. Since 1935 she was widowed from Isaac van Geldere, who was born on 13 August 1861 in Rotterdam and passed away there on 20 August 1935. He was a son of Salomon van Geldere and Sophia Polak.
Sara and Isaac were married in Amsterdam on 3 August 1901 and they had three children, all born in Rotterdam, namely Salomon Benjamin on 2 May 1901, Sophia Marianna on 4 September 1902 and Elisabeth on 6 October 1903. However, Elisabeth died already in childhood on 8 June 1905, not even 2 years old.
Isaac van Geldere, shop keeper and dealer of furniture, lived with his family at Kipstraat 66b in Rotterdam, moved in February 1926 to the Oudedijk 153a but at the end of April 1933, they returned to the Kipstraat 66b. From there, per 22 May 1935 they moved to Provenierssingel 19b.
Her son Salomon Benjamin had left for Brussels already at the end of October 1922, returned from there in June 1924 but two months later he left Rotterdam again for Den Haag, where he came living in with his uncle and shop keeper Joseph van Geldere at Molenstraat 14. Joseph van Geldere passed away there on 29 March 1925 but Salomon Benjamin, working there as a shop assistant, still remained in Den Haag. At the end of December 1926 he returned to Kipstraat 66b in Rotterdam, but left again for Den Haag in March 1927, where he got married on 16 March to Eva van der Stam.
One month after the passing of Isaac van Geldere on 20 August 1935, the widowed Sara van Geldere-de Vries moved to Den Haag, together with her unmarried daughter Sophia Marianna, where they came to live at the Schenkkade 110. On 1 July 1936 however, Sara de Vries left Den Haag for Haarlem, Koninginneweg 77.
Then her daughter left Den Haag too and went for Rotterdam but later she ended up as a domestic aid in Scheveningen at Gevers Deynootweg 68, from where, possibly under pressure of the construction of the German coastal defenceworks, she had to move again and finally arrived at Biesboschstraat 45 in Amsterdam. From there she was carried off to Westerbork on 7 August 1942 and deported from Westerbork to Auschwitz on 10 August 1942, where she has lost her life on 30 September 1942.
Meantime the widow of Isaac van Geldere, Sara de Vries, had moved in Den Haag to the Israelitic Old Men- and Womens Home Newee Sjalom at the Neuhyskade 92-94, from where she was taken to Westerbork on 25 March 1943 and accommodated in the old peoples barrack 84. On 30 March she was put on transport to Sobibor, where Sara van Geldere-de Vries there upon arrival on 22 April 1943 has been murdered in the gas chambers immediately.
Sources include the City Archive of Rotterdam/family registration cards of Isaac van Geldere; Municipal Archive of Den Haag, family registration card of Isaac vab Geldere; het archief van de Joodse Raad, registratiekaart van Sara van Geldere-de Vries en de Wikipedia list van jodentransporten vanuit Nederland.nl.