Salomon Alexander Dingsdag

Abraham Dingsdag was the second child of Levie Dingsdag and Mietje Theeboom. He was born in Amsterdam on 9 February 1897. The first born in the Levie Dingsdag family was Mozes, born on 19 March 1896 but he died already 3 April 1896, just two weeks old.

Levie and Mietje's family expanded continually; in the years that followed, Abraham had ten more siblings, of which one child - again called Moses …

Levie was the eldest son of Abraham Dingsdag and Aaltje de Beer and Salomon Alexander the youngest; Levie was born on 19 March 1921 and Salomon Alexander on 2 May 1926. Apparently they were summoned on 16 July 1942 for the so-called Arbeitseinsatz; Levie just had celebrated his 21^st birthday and his brother Salomon was 16 years old. Levie was employed as office clerk and Salomon Alexander was an a…

In addition, a Jokos file (number 32548) on this family is at the Amsterdam Municipal Archive. Access is subject to authorization from the Stichting Joods Maatschappelijk Werk.

According to the "Sterbebücher" (death records) of Auschwitz, Salomon Dingsdag was murdered there on 1 September 1942. This date is different from the official date of death as determined by the Dutch Ministry of Justice after the war. For the time being, the website joodsmonument.nl, list only the dates of death, as published at the time in the "Nederlandse Staatscourant" (Dutch Government Gazett…