Samuel Hartogensis was a son of Jacobus Jeronimus Hartogensis and Sophie van Ham. He was born in Tilburg on 11 July 1872 as the youngest in a family of six children; he has four other brothers and one sister, namely Gabriel Jacob, Joseph, Isidore, Hendrik Jacob and Adèle Louise.
Samuel and his brother Hendrik Jacob were dealers in metals. Both the brothers left Tilburg for Rotterdam on 1 May 1901, where they then lived at Stationsplein 7a and at Goudse Wagenstraat 70. When his brother Hendrik Jacob married his cousin Louise Charlotte Hartogensis in Den Bosch on 21 April 1903, they moved into a house at ‘s Gravendijkwal 15. Samuel, who was still unmarried, then moved to Baan 158 and nr. 156. In May 1918 to Mathernesserlaan 372b and one month later to Henegouwenlaan 118.
At the end of March 1922, Judith Stokvis arrived from Tilburg in Rotterdam, where she at first moved in with Hendrik Jacob Hartogensis and his family. Since June 1904, Judith was a compagnion lady of the mother of Samuel, Hendrik Jacob and the other sibs, the widow Sophie Hartogensis-van Ham in Tilburg, who passed away there in September 1919. The still at home living brother Isidore Hartogensis passed there too in February 1922 and after that there was no reason any longer for Judith Stokvis to remain in Tilburg and she left for Rotterdam.
Early June 1922 Samuel Hartogensis and Judith Stokvis together moved into a house in the Graaf Florisstraat 68b, where they have lived until February 1938. Then they both have moved to the Rochussenstraat 29c.
At the time of the compulsory registration of all the Jews in the Netherlands up from 1941, the inmate of Samuel, Judith Stokcis was registrerd at the address Mathenesserlaan 425b but Samuel remained living at Rochussenstraat 29c.There, on 18 August 1942 he was arrested by the Rotterdam police and locked in to be brought for the Sicherheits Polizei.
On 5 September 1942 he was carried off to Westerbork and on 7 September deported to Auschwitz. Upon arrival there on 10 September 1942, he was immediately murdered in the gas chambers of Auschwitz-Birkenau.
Sources include the Archive of Tilburg/Population Registry with Hartogensis; City Archive of Rotterdam/family registration cards of Samuel Hartogensis, Hendrik Jacob Hartogensis and Judith Stokvis; the archive of the Rotterdam Police/arrest of Samuel Hartogensis and the file cabinet of the Jewish Council, registration cards of Samuel Hartogensis.