Abraham de Metz, a son of Eliazer de Metz and Marianna Cohen, married 26 October 1909 in Gennep Bertha van Leeuwen, who was born in 1901 as daughter of Mozes Levie van Leeuwen and Clasina Manassen. Abraham and Bertha had three children, namely Marianna Clasina in 1910, Henriette Elise in 1913 and Elie Mozes in 1923.
After their marriage, Abraham and Bertha lived in Amsterdam at Vrolikstraat 321, but they moved 10 July 1922 to Oosterparkstraat 102. There Abraham’s wife Bertha van Leeuwen passed away 16 July 1938. She was interred in the Jewish Cemetery in Diemen.
After the passing of his wife Bertha van Leeuwen, Abraham moved 2 November 1939 with his three grown-up children to Kinderdijkstraat 76 3rd floor, where that year on 11 November also Antonia Kramer came living in.
Antonia Kramer, who was born in 1901 in Hörstgen, the western part of Kamp Lintfort in Germany, was unmarried and worked already previously as domestic help at different addresses in the Netherlands; in December 1937 she arrived from Elberfeld in Germany in Leeuwarden, lived in September 1939 in Arnhem and in October 1939 she moved to Plantage Franschelaan 34 upper house in Amsterdam and 11 November 1939, she moved in with the De Metz family at Kinderdijkstraat 76 3rd floor. She was still unmarried and still worked as domestic help. Early 1942 Abraham de Metz and Antonia Kramer decided to contract a marriage, which has been concluded 4 February 1942 in Amsterdam.
The De Metz family stayed together till the summer of 1942; then Abraham’s son Elie Mozes was employed in the Rijkswerkkamp (State labor camp) "Echten" in the province of Drenthe. His daughters were still working in Amsterdam as seamstress and sales lady. But in 1943 things changed: in the night of 6/7 May 1943, Abraham de Metz and his two daughters Marianne Clasina and Henriette Elise were taken to concentration camp Vught. Through this Antonia was left alone; under pressure of the circumstances she has taken her own life on 21 May 1943. Abraham’s daughters were put on transport, direct from Vught to Auschwitz on 15 November 1943, where they eventually lost their lives 31 January 1944.
Abraham de Metz was transferred from Vught to Westerbork 24 may 1943 where he stayed the night in barrack 61. The next day, 25 May he was put on transport to Sobibor where on arrival there on 28 May 1943, he has been immediately killed.
Sources: City Archive of Amsterdam, family registration card and archive card of Abraham de Metz, archive cards of Marianna Clasina, Henriette Elise and Elie Mozes de Meta and Antonia Kramer; NIOD and the file cabinet of the Jewish Council, registration cards of Abraham de Metz and Antonia Kramer and the certificate of death nr. 155 of 22 May 1943 for Antonia de Metz-Kramer.