Meijer Soep was a son of Jacob Soep and Betje Leendert Schellevisch. He was born in Amsterdam on 6 February 1884 as the youngest in a family of seven children and was a cigar maker by trade. On 23 June 1909 he married Anna Vogel, who was born on 13 August 1885 as a daughter of Isaäc Vogel and Trijntje Lubig. Anna was the third in a family of ten children.
After the marriage of Meijer and Anna was concluded in 1909, they lived at Valkenburgerstraat 178a, but moved on 30 August 1927 to Nieuwe Uilenburgerstraat 58, from where they took up accommodation on the 2nd floor of house number 10 in the Nieuwe Uilenburgerstraat one year later (on 7 September 1928). On 5 March 1941, the entire family moved to their last known address in the Netherlands: Amstel 35, 1st floor in Amsterdam.
In the meantime, four children had been born in the family of Meijer Soep and Anna Vogel, viz. Jacob on 24 October 1909; on 11 March 1911 twins were born: the girls Catharina and Elisabeth and on 28 August 1920 yet the youngest son Isidoor was born. Only Jacob got married: on 20 June 1942 he married Sara Premselaar, a daughter of Philip Premselaar and Esther Piller. Both of them and all the other sibs and parents were killed during the Shoah.
Catharina and Isidoor Soep, however, already received a call-up for the so-called “Arbeitseinsatz” on 24 July 1942, but were still “zurückgestellt” via the Jewish Council – which meant a temporary postponement of deportation for the time being. However, deportation from Westerbork still followed on 31 July 1942. (see their biography). Catharina's twinsister Elisabeth Soep was taken to Vught on 9 April 1943 and in the end murdered in Auschwitz on 24 September 1943.
During the large-scale raids at the beginning of October 1942, Meijer Soep was arrested and taken to Westerbork, where he was brought in somewhere between 3 and 5 October and where he spent some time in barrack 56, the work barrack "cables and batteries". On 3 November 1942 Meijer Soep died in camp Westerbork and was buried on 6 November 1942 at the Jewish cemetery in Assen.
His widow, Anna Vogel, continued to live with her children at Amstel 35 1st floor, until she too fell victim to the razzia of 26 May 1943. Meanwhile, her son Jacob was married on 20 June 1942 to Sara Premselaar, who then also came to live with her husband, mother-in-law, brother-in-law and sisters-in-law. Jacob and Sarah also fell prey to this raid; in Westerbork they were housed in barrack 58 and on 1 June 1943 they were deported to Sobibor, where they were immediately murdered in the gas chambers upon arrival on 4 June 1943.
Sources include the City Archive of Amsterdam, family registration card of Meijer Soep, archive cards of Anna Vogel and Meijer Soep; closed family registration cards with the Jacob Soep 1836 family; the file cabinet of the Jewish Council, registration cards of Anna Soep-Vogel, Meijer Soep, Jacob Soep and his wife Sara Soep-Premselaar; Elisabeth Soep, Catharina Soep and Isidoor Soep; death certificate nr. 296 for Meijer Soep dated 29 March 1950 from the A-register 23/folio 51.