Salomon van Dantzig was a son of Michel van Dantzig and Jetje Fles. He was born on 28 March 1883 in Rotterdam and he was working as an office clerk. His mental health left much to be desired: already in 1906 and in 1907 he was treated in the psychiatric hospitals "Oud Rosenburg" in Loosduinen and at "Coudewater" in Rosmalen. Up from the end of May 1912 till September 1914, Salomon stayed at two addresses in Den Haag and per 21 September 1914 in Rotterdam again at Noordblaak 5a.
On 1 August 1918 he married Hanna Cune in Rotterdam, who was born in Amsterdam on 22 January 1892 as a daughter of Isidore Cune and Duifje Blommekoper. That same day they were both registered at their new home-address: Mathenesserlaan 360a. They lived there till 30 April 1926, then moved to Bergweg 255b. Three months later, on 6 July 1926 the family moved to Sleedoornlaan 60 in Den Haag, where he became an exchange bureau holder.
In the meantime, in the family of Salomon and Hanna three children had been born in Rotterdam, viz. Michel Salomon on 9 June 1919, Isidore Henri on 15 March 1921 and Louis Willy van Dantzig on 12 February 1924. Of the three sons, Michel Salomon and Isidore Henry were married in April 1942 while Louis Willy was still unmarried. However, all were murdered during the Shoah.
The Salomon van Dantzig family lived in the Sleedoornlaan in Den Haag, but only Salomon moved 18 November 1927 to Sneeuwbalstraat 186 2nd floor, located in the eastern part of the “Bloemenbuurt (Flower district) of Den Haag. On 1 October 1929 he was officially unsubscribed from that addres; his new address became Oude Haagweg 377.
This is where the “Buitenplaats Rosenburg”, originally from the 16th century, was located, which from 1898 was used as a medical institution for the insane and from 1927 it became the “Oud Rosenburg Foundation". Salomon appears to have been formally placed under guardianship on 5 January 1928 and he was admitted as a patient to “Oud Rosenburg” on 1 October 1929. (today the Parnassia Psychiatric Institution).
When only Salomon moved to Sneeuwbalstraat in Den Haag in November 1927, his wife Hanna Cune and her three sons then left again for Rotterdam. There they found living space at Beukelsdijk 128b, where her parents Isidore Cune and Duifje Blommekoper lived since 29 July 1927. Till in summer of 1932, they moved seven more times, after which Hanna Cune also stayed in “Oude Rosenburg” in Den Haag from 20 December 1932.
She was discharged from “Oud Rosenburg on 1 June 1938, partly on the basis of a letter from that Foundation, dated 1 July 1938, and Hanna left again on 11 November 1938 for Beukelsdijk 128b to her parents. Her sons sometimes moved with their mother, sometimes not, but in April 1942, they all lived together on the Beukelsdijk.
Salomon van Dantzig passed away in the psychiatric hospital “Oud Rosenburg” in Den Haag on 25 January 1943. At the time of the mandatory registration of all the Jews in the Netherlands by the Jewish Council, it was mentioned in 1943 on the registration card of his wife Hanna, that the two sons were in Germany and that her husband was nursed already for 16 years in the psychiatric hospital “Oud Rosenburg” in Loosduinen.
Hanna van Dantzig-Cune became a “house keeper” for the Jewish Council on 25 July 1942. She received an ID number B1634 but despite that, no “Sperre” (exemption from deportation). On 22 April 1943 she was carried off to concentration camp Vught, but already one month later, on 23 May 1943 transferred to Westerbork. On 25 May she was put on transport to Sobibor, where upon arrival there, she was immediately murdered in the gas chambers.
Sources include the City Archive of Rotterdam, family registration cards of Michel van Dantzig (1847), Salomon van Dantzig (1883), Isidore Cune (1866), Hanna Cune (1892); the Municipal Archive of Den Haag, family registration card/peoples registration of Salomon van Dantzig and Hanna Cune; Wikipedia website Buitenplaats Rosenburg; website over Rosenburg en Bloemendaal; the file cabinet of the Jewish Council, registration card of Hanna van Dantzig-Cune and the website ITS Arolson/camp card Vught of Hanna van Dantzig-Cune.