Sara Schaap was a daughter of Wolf Schaap and his 3rd spouse Judik Agstteribbe, (daughter of Salomon Simon Agstteribbe and Saartje Emanuel Fierlier). Sara married at the age of 22 on 25 March 1897 in Amsterdam to the 28-years old Liepman Agstteribbe, a son of Elias Andries Agstteribbe and Maria Moses. The couple had eight children, namely Maria, Willem (Wim), Elias, Henriette (Jettie), Salomon (Sal), Cato (Kitty), Jenny Clara and Roza (Ro). Four of them, Willem, Elias, Salomon and Jenny Clara were killed in the Shoah. The others have survived the Holocaust.
Sara’s husband, Liepman Agstteribbe was a diamond worker by trade. Besides in Amsterdam, he also provided in his and their maintenance between 1908 and 1923 in Borgerhout, a district of Antwerp. Returned in Amsterdam, he passed away on 23 May 1924 in an attempt to save a child from drowning. As a result of that, he fell ill, got tubercolosis and died. Two days later, Liepman has been interred in the Jewish Cemetery at Muiderberg, leaving his wife behind with a large family.
Sara Schaap lived at Plantage Kerklaan 4 1st floor in Amsterdam. Her sister Kaatje van Engel-Schaap lived at the 2nd stock and her sister Antje van West-Schaap, from the first marriage of her father, at nr. 6 1st floor. On 15 April 1943 Sara was taken from there to Westerbork and had to stay in barrack 60.Ten days before she was taken from home, she had surgery, had an open abdominal wound and a stoma.
Her son-in-law, Jacob Barend, who had an exemption from deportation, (a "Sperre"), and employed at the Jewish Council, managed three times to get his mother-in-law out of the Hollandse Schouwburg, but in the end Sara could no longer bear it and gave up. Her daughter Jenny, who was offered to go into hiding, declined that "because she did not want to leave her mother alone so soon after her operation." Which ultimately led to nothing; shortly thereafter they were still separated from each other; Jenny has been killed in Auschwitz in September 1943 and Sara Agstteribbe-Schaap was deported to Sobibor on 25 May 1943, where she was immediately murdered on arrival on 28 May 1943.
Sources among others: City Archive of Amsterdam, family registration card of Liepman Agstteribbe; archive card of Sara Schaap; website Akevoth/burialpermits/Liepman Agstteribbe and the file cabinet of the Jewish Council, registration card of Sara Agstteribbe-Schaap and an addition from Suzette, user of the website.