Amalia Hemelrijk, the only daugther of Moses Hemelrijk and Aaltje Groen, married 5 May 1931 Isaäc Buitenkant, a son of Nantes Buitenkant and Klaartje Snijders. Amalia was born on 31 August 1897 and Isaäc on 20 April 1899, both in Amsterdam. Before Amalia was married, she was employed as an office clerk and Isaäc as a warehouse clerk. Later Isaäc became a warehouse manager and manager of a women’s fabric store. The couple had no children.
Amalia’s mother, Aaltje Groen passed away on 10 January 1927 and was interred in the Jewish Cemetery of Muiderberg. Her father, Moses Hemelrijk, subsequently lived as a widower at five different addresses in Amsterdam and came living in with his daughter and son-in-law on 26 January 1937, who lived then at Geleenstraat 45. Moses went along with them on 21 May 1937 when they moved into a house at Zuider Amstellaan 94, where he stayed until November 1938.
On 18 June 1940, Amalia and Isaäc Buitenkant moved to the Van Lijndenlaan 10 in Naarden , but as turned out at their Jewish Council registration cards, their address during the mandatory registration of all the Jews in the Netherlands was Marnixstraat 407 in Amsterdam, possibly due to forced removal to Amsterdam in 1942 by order of the Germans. Not much later, they went living in with Isaäc’s parents Nantes Buitenkant and Klaartje Snijders at Weesperstraat 7.
Both Isaäc and Amalia were “gesperrt”- exempted from deportation “because of function” and due to that, it could be possible that Isaäc’s parents, with whom they lived in, were also temporarily exempted from deportation. Isaäc Buitenkant had a function with the bread supply of the Jewish council, but per 23 December 1942 he became administrator at the department of vegetable distribution. Also Amalia was exempted – “gesperrt” – because of function of her husband. She was employed at the Jewish Council department of HAV (Hulp Aan Vertrekkenden) – (Assistance To Departers) at the Reguliersgracht in Amsterdam, where she was a shorthand typist German language.
Isaäc’s parents, Nantes Buitenkant and Klaartje Snijders were arrested on 17 May 1943 and carried off to Westerbork and housed in the hospital barrack 83. Both were already aged: Nantes was 79 years old and Klaartje 76 years old. Both have died in Westerbork: Nantes Buitenkant on 31 May 1943 and his wife Klaartje Snijders on 6 June 1943. They were subsequently cremated and the urns with their ashes were interred in the Jewish Cemetery of Muiderberg.
On 27 May 1943 Amalia Hemelrijk and her husband Isaäc Buitenkant followed. They too were arrested and carried off to Westerbork, where they ended up in barrack 61. On 13 July they were deported in a transport of 1988 victims to the extermination camp Sobibor. There upon arrival on 16 July 1943 they were immediately murdered in the gas chambers. Of this transport were no survivors.
Sources include the City Archive of Amsterdam, family registration cards of Nantes Buitenkant, Moses Hemelrijk and Isaäc Buitenkant, archive cards of Isaäc Buitenkant, Amalia Hemelrijk, Nantes Buitenkant and Klaartje Snijders; the file cabinet of the Jewish Council, registration cards of Isaäc Buitenkant, Amalia Buitenkant-Hemelrijk, Nantes Buitenkant and Klaartje Buitenkant-Snijders and the Wikpedia website jodentransporten vanuit Nederland.nl.