Martha Monnickendam was a daughter of Abraham Monnickendam and Judith Lelyveld. She married 1 September 1912 in Amsterdam Hijman Scholte, who has survived the war. He was a son of Barend Scholte and Grietje Borstel.
The couple had two children, Albert and Margaretha, and they have been killed in the Shoah, just like their mother.
By marriage to Hijman Scholte, she became a family member of his siblings too; of Levie, Leentje, Anna, Samuel and Klaartje. They too have been killed all during the Holocaust.
City Archive of Amsterdam, family registration card of Barend Scholte, archive card of Hijman Scholte and website www.wiewaswie.nl.
The Scholte family lived with theit two children in Hilversum. The head of family worked there for AVRO radio station. In 1941, during a razzia, their son Albert (Ab) was arrested. In October of that year, the family received the message of his death in Mauthausen. Also Margaretha (Greetje) was arrested. The parents had the possibility to go into hiding. At first in Tilbur, later in Amsterdam but there they werd betrayed in 1943. Martha Scholte-Monnickendam lost her live eventually in the Command Ludwigslust in Mecklenburg. The head of family has survived several concentration camps.
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