Naatje Trijtel was a daughter of Abraham Trijtel and Helena Hartog. She married 29 November 1930 in Rotterdam Joseph Israel, a son of Benjamin Israel and Esther Krant. They had four children together, of whom the eldest child, a son, have been stillborn. Their other children were Esther (1931), Helena (1933) and Ali (1935). However, the marriage of Naatje and Joseph did not last and on 23 December 1935 the have been divorced in Rotterdam.
On 13 November 1935, one month before the divorce was pronounced, their three daughter have been placed out of home: Esther, then 4 1/2 years old, was registered as inhabitant at the address Katshoek 27 b in Rotterdam and per 7 December 1936 as inhabitant at the address Vriendenlaan 35 in Rotterdam. Early October Esther has been registered in transit camp Westerbork where has been taken down her previous dwelling as Atjehstraat 42 C in Rotterdam. On 30 October 1942 Esther was deported to Auschwitz where she has been killed upon arrival there on 2 November 1942.
The other daughers, Helena (2 1/2 years old) and Ali (9 months old), have been both registered as inhabitants at the address Schiekade 73 in Rotterdam and were under the women-protection (vrouwenbescherming) of the Salvation Army. Both have been accommodated per 15 September 1937 at the address of A. Nagel at Drukkerstraat 14 in Enschede, but eventually they stayed at the S.A. Rudelsheimstichting at Verdilaan 10 in Hilversum. From there the have been sent to transit camp Westerbork, registered there on 10 April 1943, stayed there in barack 66. Three days later they were deported to Sobibor, where they have been killed upon arrival there on 16 April 1943.
After her divorce Naatje Trijtel married again to a non-Jewish man, Johannes van Kuijk. He passed away during the war in Sliedrecht on 27 November 1942. Since then Naatje stayed as a widow at various addresses in Rotterdam (stayed and/or lived in); her latest address was Atjehstraat 42C in Rotterdam. In transit camp Westerbork, where she was registered on 12 March 1943, her latest address appeared to be Atjehstraat 52. Naatje stayed about 11 days in barack 66, but on 23 march 1943 she was sent to Sobibor and upon arrival there on 26 March 1943 immediately killed.
City Archive of Rotterdam, family registration cards of Joseph Israel, Johannes van Kuijk, Naatje Trijtel, Esther Israel, Ali Israel, Helena Israel; the index of deaths of the archive of Rotterdam re Johannes van Kuijk, the file cabinet of the Jewish Council of Amstedam and Kaddisj: ter nagedachtenis van de joodse Rotterdammers in de oorlogsjaren (Rotterdam 2000) (in commemoration of the Jewish inhabitants of Rotterdam during the war (Rotterdam 2000).