Salomon Zeldenrust was a son of Joseph Jacob Zeldenrust and Engeltje van Gelder. He was born on 17 July1904 in Den Haag. He lived with his parents and sibs at the Toussaintkade 34 and moved with them later to nr. 50. On 4 February 1931, Salomon married in Den Haag Anna Koekoek, a daughter of Nathan Koekoek and Esther Blommekoper. She was born in Den Haag on 9 February 1903.
After the wedding was concluded, Salomon and Anna moved into a house at Caan van Necklaan 224 in Rijswijk, where on 11 November 1931 their first son Joseph Jacob Zeldenrust was born. Later, the family moved to the Maastrichtsestraat 18 in Scheveningen (municipality Den Haag), where their 2nd son Jacques was born on 29 April 1935. Salomon Zeldenrust earned a living for his family as a company director.
In August 1942, also in Den Haag the raids and deportations started. The measures taken by the German occupier against the Jewish population of Den Haag already started in the first year of the war. Their rights were curtailed month after month. In the summer of 1942, a new low was reached. Then the occupier decided that all Jews had to leave Den Haag. Subsequently, between August 1942 and April 1943, the majority of Jews in Den Haag were deported to Westerbork and from there to extermination camps. The first raids in Den Haag took place on 22 August 1942. (source website Stichting Joods Erfgoed Den Haag).
After being registrated at the Jewish Council on 1 August 1942, Salomon Zeldenrust and his family decided not to wait for what was apparently about to happen and went into hiding. Unfortunately the hiding place of the Zeldenrust family has been betrayed and Salomon, his wife Anna were arrested on 14 August 1943 and carried off to Westerbork, where they were locked up in the penal barrack 67. On 24 August they were both deported to Auschwitz, where Anna Zeldenrust-Koekoek immediately was murdered in the gas chambers of Auschwitz-Birkenau upon arrival there on 27 August 1943
Salomon Zeldenrust, on the other hand, was selected on arrival to be deployed as a forced labourer. Not known is where exactly, but after the war has been established by the Ministry of Justice, that Salomon Zeldenrust has lost his life on 9 January 1944 in the vicinity of Auschwitz.
The children Joseph Jacob and Jacques were probably hiding elsewhere, reason why the eldest son Joseph Jacob Zeldenrust managed to survive the Shoah. The youngest son Jacques however was most likely betrayed: after being arrested he arrived in Westerbork on 22 February 1944 where he was accommodated in barrack 35, then known as orphanage. On 3 March the 8-year old Jacques Zeldenrust was deported to Auschwitz where upon arrival on 6 March 1944, he was immediately murdered in the gas chambers of Auschwitz-Birkenau.
Sources include the Municipality Archive of Den Haag, family registration card of Joseph Jacob Zeldenrust; the file cabinet of the Jewish Council, registration cards of Salomon Zeldenrust, Anna Zeldenrust-Koekoek, Joseph Jacob and Jacques Zeldenrust; the death certificate nr. C2692 made out in Den Haag for Salomon Zeldenrust, dated 27 Juli 1951.