About Sophia de Wilde-Snuijf

Sophia Elias de Wilde-Snuijf was the sister of Judith Snuijf. She was the second of the eight children of Elias Snuijf and Eva Cats. Sophia was good with her hands and worked at a needlework shop. She took dancing lessons, where she met Abraham de Wilde. The couple married in 1903.
Sophia Snuijf was rather a nervous, anxious housewife. One of her grandchildren remembers that she was always saying ‘Gottegot Abraham’. About one of her children, Sophia constantly said, ‘Abraham, I worry about that child. All she does is dream.’ But Abraham did not take such a gloomy view of things. The roles were reversed when the couple went shopping. ‘Abraham, it’s a bargain’, Sophia would often say, at which Abraham would answer, ‘All my money will go on bargains’.
Sophia loved reading and music. She read novels and liked listening to Concertgebouworkest concerts on the radio; she could always tell whether Mengelberg was conducting.
Sophia was rather slow to get started in the mornings and her husband, Abraham, took care of breakfast. Stew [stamppot] was Sophia’s favourite meal; she did not like cooking. Abraham would carve the meat, and the cat would always come for a snack. If the cat was lying on one of the children’s beds, the sound of Abraham sharpening the carving knife would bring her flying into the kitchen. The De Wilde family did not eat kosher, but they never served eel or pork.
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