Samuël Sealtiel, the 2nd son of Israël Seatiel and Betje Koort, was born on 23 October 1885 in Amsterdam. He was a butcher by profession and lived after being married on 6 March 1913 to Raatje Gobets in the Camperstraat 48 1st floor in Amsterdam. Raatje was the daughter of Eliazer Gobets and Hanna Worms. As far as known, the Sealtiel-Gobets couple had no children.
At the time of the passing of Betje Koort on 13 January 1903, the Sealtiel family included then still five of the seven born children, namely David (1883), Samuël (1885), Rebecca (1889), Marianne (1893) and Aron (1896). Both girls Sara (1888-1889) and Marianna (1888-1888) died already in childhood and very young. Sara at the age of 1 ½ year and Marianne was only 3 weeks old. Their 2nd daughter Marianne died as the 1st spouse of Bernard van Adelsbergen on 15 September 1916 and left two children behind: Lisabeth and Mozes.
Samuël Sealtiel was “gesperrt” – exempted from deportation by the Jewish Council. Per 29 June 1942 he had a job as a vegetable distribution administrator at Messrs De Hond at Weesperstraat 84. Because of his exemption, also his wife Raatje Gobets was exempted from deportation “bis auf weiteres”- until further notice. When the Germans in the end of May 1943 all exemptions had cancelled, Samuël and Raatje possibly have made attempts to go into hiding. Which obiviously was not successful as on 29 June 1943 both were arrested and carried off to Westerbork and locked up in the penal barrack 67. However, they did manage escaping the large and secretly prepared round-up of 20 June 1943.
From Westerbork, Samuël Sealtiel and his wife Raatje Sealtiel-Gobets were put on transport to Sobibor on 6 July 1943. Upon arrival there on 9 July 1943 they both were immediately murdered in the gas chambers.
Sources include the City Archive of Amsterdam, archive cards of Samuël Sealtiel and Raatje Gombets; website wiewaswie.nl/marriages Sealtiel x Gobets and the file cabinet of the Jewish Council, registration cards of Samuël Sealtiel and Raatje Sealtiel-Gobets.