Aron Barendse was a son of Isaac Barendse and Sophia van Gich, born on 10 September 1904 in Rotterdam. He was a commercial traveller by profession and married – presumably in Dordrecht – the non-Jewish Dirkje Elisabeth Rackwitz. In 1944 a son was born, Willem Victor August Barendse, who however died, only 2 years old on 4 April 1946 in Rotterdam.
After the passing of his father at the age of 27 years in 1906 and of his mother in 1928, his eldest brother Benjamin Barendse became head of the family and the brothers Benjamin, Abraham, Aron and sister Belia lived together in the Goudschestraat in Rotterdam. On 29 January 1929 Abraham, Aron and Belia left their brother to look for independent housing elsewhere. Their brother Benjamin then married in 1932 Hendrika David, a daughter of Isaac David and Elizabeth Velleman.
Aron Barendse lodged afterwards at several addresses in Rotterdam and Hillegersberg and ended up on 12 May 1938 in the Teilingerstraat 71b in the Agniese district of Rotterdam. This was followed by a move to the Russischestraat 54b in Oud Mathenesse and thereafter to Rijswijkscheweg 39 in Den Haag, where he still resided in April 1942 according to the Municipality of Den Haag.
On 16 February 1943 Aron Barendse was arrested in Den Haag and carried off to Westerbork, where he ended up in barrack 51. Because he was mixed-married, he has made immediate efforts to obtain papers, with which he could prove that his spouse was of Aryan descent. According to the Municipality of Rotterdam, those papers had to come from Dordrecht, because the wedding would have taken place there. On behalf of Aron inquiries were made on 11 April through the Jewish Council, how his wife Dirkje Elisabeth Barende is doing, who then lived in the Duitschestraat 12b in Rotterdam.
On 20 April 1943, his luggages was placed in barrack 66, which happened to be a penal barrack and it seemed that Aron was locked up in the penal barrack 67, where he had to stay during one week, for reasons unknown. On 27 April he was transferred to barrack 51 again and his luggage followed too. In the end, Aron Barendse was put on transport on 18 May 1943 to Sobibor, where he, on arrival there on 21 May 1943, has been killed immediately in the gas chambers there.
Sources include the City Archive of Rotterdam, several family registration cards of Aron Barendse and of Sophia van Gich; the file cabinet of the Jewish Council, registration card of Aron Barendse and the certificate of death from Rotterdam for Aron Barendse, inventory 1950V1- folio v1-162, deed no.1950.957.