Abraham Snoek

Abraham Snoek was a son of Hartog Snoek and Klara Zante. He was born on 6 February 1916 in Amsterdam and he was a commercial traveller in stationery. On 5 June 1941 he married in Amsterdam Alida Poppegaai, who was born there on 18 September 1915 as a daughter of Gerrit Poppegaai and Magdalena van Geldere. The couple Snoek-Poppegaai had no children.

Before they were married, Abraham Snoek lived in …

We have been unable to determine whether one or more members of this family survived the war. While their names do not appear on the lists of survivors, we have not been able to trace them in In Memoriam either. They are therefore labeled as 'surviving' and their names are not listed.

In addition, Jokos files (numbers 12834, 16531) on this family or other family members are at the Amsterdam Muni…

Abraham Snoek, son of Hartog Snoek and Klara Zante (who have survived the Holocaust), married Alida Poppegaai on 5 June 1941 in Amsterdam, a daughter of Gerrit Poppegaai and Magdalena van Geldere.
Abraham had five other siblings: Alexander, Hijman, Samuel (who also survived the war), Martha and Sara.
City Archive of Amsterdam, archive card of Hartog Snoek and Samuel Snoek.

The only German-style concentration camp that was set up in our country was concentration camp Vught, which was opened in January 1943. The camp had a number of “Aussenkommando’s“ (satellite camps) including Moerdijk. This command was located in the old barracks of the anti-aircraft artillery near the harbour. Fifty S.S. men were appointed as guards and the first prisoners arrived on 26 March 1943…