Joseph Stad, born 12 April 1892 in Rotterdam, was a son of Simon Stad and Judik Stad. He married Elizabeth Scheffer in Amsterdam on 31 May 1900, who was born in Rotterdam on 17 June 1874 as daughter of Jacobus Manus Scheffer and Esther Beffi. The Stad couple had three children, namely Judith in 1901, Esther in 1905 and Simon Jacob in 1918. All were killed during the Shoah.
After their wedding in 1900, Joseph and his wife Elizabeth lived in the Dapperstraat in Amsterdam-East, where he runned a store and factory of matrasses and beds at Dapperplein. In 1910 the family moved to house nr. 71, where they have lived till 28 November 1933, after which they moved in a house at President Steijnplantsoen 7 parterre. In June 1937 the family moved again, now to Insulindeweg 50, which at the same time became their last known address in Amsterdam.
On 26 November 1942, Joseph Stad and his wife Elizabeth Scheffer were taken from their home in Amsterdam-East to Westerbork to be deported. That happened on 8 December, when both were put on transport to Auschwitz with another 925 deportees. On arrival there on 11 December 1942, they were both immediately murdered.
Sources among others: City Archive of Amsterdam, archive cards of Joseph Stad and Elizabeth Scheffer, family registration card of Joseph Stad; Wikipedia list of Jodentransporten vanuit Nederland; Frits Slicht re Joseph Stad’s beds and matrasses store and the file cabinet of the Jewish Council, registration cards of Joseph Stad and Elizabeth Scheffer.