Reintje Bloemhof was a daughter of Abraham Bloemhof and Cato de Reeder. She married Salomon Kogel in Amsterdam on 29 August 1888, a son of Mozes Nathan Kogel and Aaltje Jacob Wolder. However, Salomon passed away 20 October 1931 and was interred two days later in the Jewish Cemetery in Muiderberg.
Reintje and Salomon had four children, namely Alida, Cato, Marguerite and Henriëtte. Alida survived the Holocaust and died in 1982 at the age of 90. Marguerite, who was born in February 1896 in Paris, died in babyhood on 28 February 1897, just one year old. Cato, born in 1892, died in 1919 and Henriëtte has been killed in Sobibor on 11 June 1943.
Salomon Kogel was a diamond adjuster and diamond polisher. After his marriage, he lived with his wife at Plantage Muidergracht 52, moved on 19 June 892 to Kromboomsloot 49-lower house. Presumably Salomon suffered from an auto-immune disease named lupus, for which he was treated in June 1892 at the Favus out-patient clinic at Nieuwe Prinsengracht 44, where an institution for Finsen-radiation was located.
Whether his departure on 2 January 1895 with wife and daughters Alida and Cato to Paris had anything to do with it, is not known. However, their third daughter Marguerite was born in Paris on 6 February 1896.
On 6 February 1896 the family returned to Amsterdam and then moved to Gerard Doustraat 188 1st floor. Relocations followed to Nieuwe Kerkstraat and Kromme Mijdrechtstraat, where Salomon Kogel passed on 20 October 1931. In the meantime, both daughters Alida and Henriëtte were already married in 1922 and 1924 and lived no longer at home but had their own addresses.
Reintje Kogel-Bloemhof, now widowed, then moved in on 29 October 1931 to her daughter Alida and her husband Isaac Gobes in Uithoornstraat 55 2nd floor, where she lived until 1939. Then she moved to Onbekendegracht 13 3rd floor, where she lived in with her niece Cato Peereboom, (a daughter of her sister Jette Bloemhof), who was married to Manurl Rootveld. Her last address was Vechtstraat 22 1st floor in Amsterdam-South, where she lived in with the unmarried Marianne de Jongh and her also unmarried brother Abraham de Jongh.
On the night of 27/28 January 1943, Reintje Kogel-Bloemhof was taken from her last address to Westerbork, where she ended up whith her “luggage” in barrack 64. On 2 February, Reintje was deported to Auschwitz, where on arrival there on 5 February 1943, she was immediately killed.
Sources include: Amsterdam City Archives, family registration card of Salomon Kogel and archive card of Reintje Bloemhof; various residence cards and the file cabinet of the Jewish Council, registration card of Reintje Kogel-Bloemhof.