Biography

About Isaäc Swart and his wife Henderika Piller.

Isaäc Swart, son of Heintje Schenkkan and Nathan Swart, was a commercial traveller. He married 18 April in Amsterdam Henderika Piller, a daughter of Daniel Piller and Sara Visser. After their wedding, they moved in a house in the Biesboschstraat 40 2nd floor, but already after a few months, they moved in with Isaac’s parents in the Vechtstraat 131 2nd floor. In November 1940 they moved with his parents then to Hunzestraat 71 2nd floor in Amsterdam-South. Isaäc and Henderika had no children.

Isaäc and Henderika were carried off from Hunzestraat to Westerbork on 7 September, together with Isaäc’s  aunt Schoontje Bont-Schenkkan. That same day they where deported to Auschwitz. On arrival there on 10 September, his aunt was immediately killed. On the other hand, Isaac and Henderika were selected to perform still hard labor. Due to that Henderika Swart-Piller lost her life in Auschwitz on 30 November 1942 and Isaäc Swart lost his life there on 31 March 1944.

Sources among others: City Archive of Amsterdam, archive cards of Isaäc Swart and Henderika Piller and the file cabinet of the Jewish Council, registration cards of Isaäc Swart en Henderika Swart-Piller and an addition of a visitor of the website.

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