Salomon Gersons

David Gersons was the eldest son of Hartog Gersons and Catharina Jacoba Salomon. He was born in Tilburg on 27 August 1892. And just like his father, David too became a butcher; he ran a beef- calf- and lamb butchery. The David Gersons family lived at Bisschop Zwijsenstraat 47 in Tilburg.

David Gersons married in Tilburg on 14 Novembe 1921 Kaatje Hartog, a daugher of Salomon Hartog and Johanna de W…

In addition, a Jokos file (number 1450) on this family is at the Amsterdam Municipal Archive. Access is subject to authorization from the Stichting Joods Maatschappelijk Werk.The Jokos file reveals that a claim was lodged for compensation for valuables surrendered to the Lippmann-Rosenthal looting bank (L-claim, number 3913/10171).

Salomon Gersons, son of David Gersons and Kaatje Hartog, had gone into hiding in Tilburg. On 18 March 1944, his body was pulled from the Wilhelminakanaal by the jetty of the Tilburgse Houtcentrale.
A. de Beer and G. Kobes, Het leven gebroken. De geschiedenis van de Tilburgers die als gevolg van de strijd tegen Duitsland en de bezetting om het leven kwamen (Tilburg 2002) 57