Abraham Daniëls, diamond polisher by profession and son of Hermanus Daniëls and Esther Simon Augurkiesman, was born in Amsterdam on 18 December 1973. On 31 July 1897, he married in Zaandam the daughter of Leman Rens and Jeannette Warradijn, the 24-year old Rebecca Rens, who was born on 1 March 1873 in Amsterdam. From this wedlock, a son was born on 16 October 1898 named Hermanus (Herman) Abraham Daniëls.
After being married, Abraham and his wife Rebecca moved into a number of different houses in the city, among them in 1900 at Blasiusstraat 60. Rebecca however passed away already at the age of 28 years on 5 November 1902 in hospital, the “Burgerziekenhuis” at Linneausstraat 89 in Amsterdam. It is not known where she has been burried.
After having lived in with his son for another month with his deceased wife’s family at Miquelstraat 34, Abraham and his son Hermanus Abraham moved from Amsterdam to Antwerp, where they were registered at 56, Rue de la Princesse on 24 February 1903 and Abraham again found work in the diamond industry.
On 1 August 1906, he married in Antwerp for the second time, to Henriette van West, a daughter of Levie van West and Margaretha de Metz, who was already widowed since March 1892 and lived with her daughter Henriette at Keizerlei 48 in Antwerp.
After the wedding to his second wife, Abraham, his son Hermanus and Henriette moved to Borgerhout, where they came to live in the Van den Peerenboonstraat 34. There, on 9 January 1907 their son Mauritius (Maurits) was born and on 4 December 1907 Alexander followed, while on 5 February 1911 still a Ludovicus (Lodewijk) Abraham was born.
On 15 December 1912, they moved to Nottebohmstraat 23 in Antwerp City where they live in with Van der Auwera. In December 1914, the Daniëls family returned to Amsterdam, where they came to live in with Cohen in August 1914 at Weesperzijde 97 but on 8 September 1915 they could move into a house at Marcusstraat 13 ground floor, a side street of the Weesperzijde. On 28 February 1935, the family moved to Narcissenlaan 27 in Heemstede.
In May 1942, all Jewish residents of Heemstede were forced to move to Amsterdam, where the Daniëls' ended up at Hemonylaan 18/corner of Govert Flinckstraat. And during the large scaled raids of early October 1942, Abraham and Henriette were arrested and via the Hollandsche Schouwburg carried off to Westerbork. They arrived there somewhere between 3 and 5 October where Abraham was housed in barrack 59 and Henriette in barrack 37.
On 30 October, Abraham Daniëls and his wife Henriette Daniëls-van West were put on transport to Auschwitz, where upon arrival there on 2 November 1942, they were immediately murdered in the gas chambers of Auschwitz-Birkenau.
Sources include the City Archive of Amsterdam, family registration cards of Abraham Daniëls and Leman Rens, various Amsterdam residence cards, closed and copied family registration cards in volumes with Abraham Daniëls; the dossiers of foreigners of the City of Antwerp, nr. 106066; the file cabinet of the Jewish Council, registration cards of Abraham Daniëls and Henriette Daniëls-van West and the Wikipedia listing of jodentransporten vanuit Nederland.nl.