Jeannette Mietje Simon, born at Stad Almelo, was a daughter of David Simon and Rebekka Philips. She was the only one of the children Simon who was killed in the Shoah. Her siblings Mieke, Leny and Samuel have survived the Holocaust. She also had a baby-sister born in September 1910, who died already three weeks old in October 1910.
Presumably Jeannette Mietje married at the end of 1941 or in the beginning of 1942 the commercial traveller Joseph Berg, also born at Stad Almelo, a son of Levie Berg and Elisabeth Bos. However, on 18 November 1942, bothe were sent to Camp Westerbork and already deported to Auschwitz on 24 November, where Jeannette Mietje was killed immediately upon arrival there on 27 November 1942. (it is known from surviving family members, that she then was three months pregnant).
Joseph Berg was deported to the East in the same transport as his wife Jeannette Mietje but his death was only established as 31 March 1944, somewhere in Mid Europe. This makes it plausible that Joseph Berg had to withstand hardships and was forced to do hard labor for a long time before he eventually lost his life.
Website www.wiewaswie.nl; the file cabinet of the Jewisch Council, registration cards of Jeannette Mietje Simon-Berg and Joseph Berg and an addition of a visitor of the website.