Arnold Rood was a son of Meijer Rood and Naatje Schenkkan. He was a tailor by profession but worked later as office clerk with the Jewish Council. Arnold married 10 March 1938 Sara Querido, born in Amsterdam and a diamond cutter by trade. She was a daughter of Adam Querido and Schoontje Baggers. The couple had no children.
After their wedding Arnonld and Sara lived in the Ruyschstraat 35 upper house in Amsterdam from where they were taken to concentration camp Vught on 26 January 1943.
Arnold Rood was put on transport from Vught to Westerbork on 21 March 1944 and from there on 23 March to Auschwitz. On arrival there on 26 March, Arnold was sent to Monowitz, where he – according to a witness – has died on 16 May 1944, due to pneumonia.
His wife Sara Querido was deported from Vught to Auschwitz three months later, on 3 June 1944 which was the last transport of Jews from this camp. It was the so-called Philips Command and Sara and many others from this Command, have survived the Holocaust. Eventually she ended up in Sweden and could return to Amsterdam on 18 August 1945.
Sources among others: City Archive of Amsterdam, archive cards of Arnold Rood and Sara Queriod and the file cabinet ot the Jewish Council, registration cards of Arnold Rood and Sara Querido.