Belnart van der Sluis

Belnart van der Sluis was a son of Elias van der Sluis and Sara Frank. He was born on 27 October 1890 in Vlijmen in North Brabant and he was a traveler in bakery products. On  14 December 1922, he married Serlina Salomons in Amsterdam, a daughter of Meijer Salomons and Bloeme de Paauw, who was born on 20 September 1889 at Rapenburgerstraat 165 in Amsterdam.

On 9 September 1901, the van der Sluis f…

In addition, a Jokos file (number 3220) 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 11053/9277).

Sunday 20 June 1943: in the southern and eastern part of Amsterdam a big raid has taken place on the last remaining Jews in the city. Germans as well as the Amsterdam police blocked all streets, went into houses to bring the Jews to the gathering places.

At this raid, a large part of the remaining Jews of Amsterdam-East and South were made “ready to march” (marschfertig). The Germans boasted about…