Sara van Huiden was a daughter of Juda van Huiden and Mietje de Hes; she was born in Oude Pekela on 28 January 1875. Sara married Abraham van Zuiden in Meppel on 13 August 1902, who was born there on 25 January 1867 as a son of Meijer van Zuiden and Sara Kan. The Van Zuiden-van Huiden couple had two children, namely Marie in 1903 and Regina Alida in 1909, both born in Meppel.
Abraham was a dealer in haberdasheries and lived in the Hoofdstraat in Meppel. His parents were already moved from Hoogeveen to Meppel in 1863. However, Abraham van Zuiden passed away on 28 October 1927 in Huize Boschrust at Loolaan 59 in Apeldoorn, a sanatorium for neuropats and those who need rest, and was interred in the Jewish Cemetery in Meppel. The widowed Sara van Huiden remained living in Meppel till 26 October 1936, then moved to Amsterdam, where she came living at Gerard Terborgstraat 34 1st floor.
Quickly after her wedding, which had taken place in Meppel on 28 August 1935, her daughter Regina Alida came to Amsterdam where she moved into a house at Postjeskade 159 1st floor in Amsterdam-West, early September 1935. Her husband Abram Joseph Stokvis, who had lived in Amsterdam already at 1st Constantijn Huijgensstraat and Wouwermanstraat, moved in with his wife and on 27 May 1936, Sarah’s granddaughter Annette Sarah was born.
Sara van Zuiden-van Huiden remained living in the Gerard Terborgstraat 34 1st floor till she was arrested somewhere in August 1943, together with her niece Serli Johanna van Zuiden (a daughter of Eliazer van Zuiden 1868-1909), who after the passing of her mother Elisabeth van Zuiden-Jacobs on 10 June 1941, obviously at some point had gone to her aunt Sara in Amsterdam, “violating regulations by changing her place of residence without permission”. Serli’s official domicile was in Voorburg at Van de Wateringlaan 194, where she lived with her mother.
After being arrested in Amsterdam, Sara and her niece Serli were brought to Scheveningen (Oranjehotel) (prison), and on 2 September 1943 sent in a transport from Scheveningen to Lager Westerbork. Upon arrival there, they both were locked up in the penal barrack 67.
Five days later, on 7 September 1943 Sara van Zuiden-van Huiden and her niece Serli Johanna van Zuiden were put on transport to Auschwitz and on arrival there on 10 September 1943 immediately murdered in the gas chambers of Auschwitz-Birkenau.
Souces include the website Alle Drenten/population registry Meppel; Municipality of Apeldoorn/death certificate for Abraham van Zuiden nr. 557 dated 28 October 1927; website parkenbuurt.nl/loolaan Apeldoorn; website wiewaswie.nl; City Archive of Amsterdam/residence cards of Gerard Terborgstraat 34 I and 32 II and Postjesweg 159 I, archive card Amsterdam of Sara van Huiden; archive Dutch Red Cross/transportlist of 2 September 1943; the file cabinet of the Jewish Council, registration card of Sara van Zuiden-van Huiden and of Serli Johanna van Zuiden and the Wikipedia website jodentransporten vanuit Nederland.nl.