Naatje Vleeskruijer was a daughter of Wolf Vleeskruijer and Flora Chapon. She was born in Amsterdam on 23 November 1888 in Amsterdam and was unmarried. Naatje has completed training as a shorthand typist, attended Dutch evening classes and also holds diplomas in foot knowledge and pedicure. She has worked as a correspondent and private secretary. Her brother, Leendert, who was more than a year older, married Geertruida Lionni in April 1912 and then no longer lived at home with his parents.
Both Naatje's father and her mother were born in the year 1863, but her father Wolf Vleeskruijer died on 15 June 1927 and was interred at Muiderberg. The family then lived at Plantage Kerklaan 32 in Amsterdam, where Flora and Naatje continued to live until the beginning of October 1932. Then they moved to house number 30 in the same street.
This was followed by another 7 relocations in Amsterdam, but Naatje and her mother lived in the Scheldestraat in The Hague for a few months up from May 1938: Naatje worked in The Hague as an office clerk. But at the end of September of that year they returned to Amsterdam and then lived at Blasiusstraat 32 ground floor.
Flora Vleeskruijer-Chapon then moved a few more times until she ended up at her last address at the end of June 1940: Plantage Middenlaan 40 upper house, where “Pension Blog” was located and where she passed away on 14 November 1941. She was interred on 16 November 1941 at the Jewish Cemetery in Muiderberg.
However, Naatje moved from Blasiusstraat 32 to Zomerdijkstraat, then to Daniel Willinkplein where she lived with the family Ziekenoppasser, then to Maasstraat 138 and finally she moved in on 21 May 1943 with her brother Leendert and his wife Geertruida Lionni at Waalstraat 97 2nd floor.
At the time of the mandatory registration of all Jews in the Netherlands, Naatje was “exempted from deportation because of function” by the Jewish Council. She got a job at the Jewish Council and worked as a shorthand typist at the General Service at Nieuwe Keizersgracht 58, for which she was issued an ID with no. A-1758 JR.
On Sunday, 20 June 1943, the Germans held a secretly prepared raid to deport a group of Jewish residents who had not yet been deported so far. 5542 Jews were arrested and taken by train to Westerbork. Naatje Vleeskruijer also fell victim to this. On 20 June she arrived in Westerbork where she was housed in barrack 65.
Notes on her registration card from the Jewish Council show that she made further attempts to escape deportation. On 24 June 1943, Naatje inquired about the "Barneveld affair" at Notary Benders at Keizersgracht 618, to which the answer came on 25 June that Notaris Benders saw no chance for "transfer to Barneveld".
On 29 June, Naatje was deported to Sobibor in a transport of almost 2400 victims, where Naatje Vleeskruijer and all other deportees were murdered in the gas chambers immediately upon arrival on 2 July 1943. There were no survivors from this transport.
Sources include the Amsterdam City Archives, family registration cards of Wolf Vleeskruijer; archive card Naatje Vleeskruijer; Amsterdam residence card/Plantage Kerklaan 32; website stenenarchief.nl/grave Wolf Vleeskruijer and Flora Chapon; the file cabinet of the Jewish Council, registration cards of Naatje Vleeskruijer; the Wikipedia website “de Grote Razzia van juni 1943” (the big raid of June 1943)(Dutch language only) and the Wikipedia website Jodentransporten uit Nederland.nl/29 Juni 1943.