Gysina (Tina) Hartog-de Haan

Gysina de Haan, who was usually called Tina, was the eldest daughter of Asser de Haan and Rosa Vos. Both her parents were born in Amsterdam, but Gysina was born in Antwerp on 9 September 1923 and lived there till 1941. Her father started working as diamond worker and as a diamond merchant he had his own business in Antwerp. Suzanna was a seamstress and she had two younger sisters, Suzanna and  Eve…

Asser de Haan was born on 10 November 1893 in Amsterdam as a son of Daniel de Haan and Gijsina Bonettenmaker. That family consisted of father, mother and six sons: Abraham, Emanuel, Simon, Meijer, Asser, Jacob and Isaac. Meijer died already as a child of 6 years old in Amsterdam. Simon passed away there at the age of 29 but Jacob survived the war and passed in 1966. Abraham was gassed in Sobibor, …

On 14 May 1940 the De Haan family fled to Southern France. After the capitulation of France on 22 June 1940, the family repatriated to Antwerp. On 24 March 1941 they were unsubscribed from the Peoples Registry Lange van Ruusbroeckstraat 88 in Antwerp to Plantage Kerklaan 14 in Amsterdam. During a raid on 20 June 1943 the family was arrested and sent to Westerbork. Because the head of the family, A…