Meijer Baggers was a son of Eliazer Marcus Baggers and Mietje Citroen. He married 19 August 1893 in Den Haag to Hendrika Wolff, who was born in 1866 as daughter of Moses Wolff and Sara Mol. This marriage however ended in a divorce on 20 March 1925, after which Meijer Baggers remarried Rinske Johanna van Almeloo on 8 April that same year, a daughter of Christiaan van Almell and Maria van Veen. On 19 June 1925 their son Willem Hendrik Karel Baggers was born. But also this marriage ended in a divorce on 27 October 1932.
After his divorce, Meijer Baggers lived per 1 June 1932 in the Jan Mayenstraat 2 in Amsterdam-West, moved 30 August 1935 to Vespuccistraat 55 and on 1 October 1937 to Van Speijkstraat 110. His last address was per 16 May 1941 Admiralengracht 176 1st floor.
From August 6, 1942, a Dutch police battalion was deployed under the command of Sybren Tulp to pick up Jews in Amsterdam. Usually these were the so-called “Schalkhaarders”, Dutch policemen, modelled to national-socialist fashion. The German plan for the destruction of the Jews was generously contributed by the Dutch civilian population. With a few exceptions, municipal administrations, railway staff and police cooperated in raids and deportations.
And in an exta launch of the Joodsche Weekblad (Jewish Weekly) a call was published which read: All Jews, who do not immediately comply with a call for labor-broadening in Germany, are taken prisoner and taken to Mauthausen concentration camp. This or other punishment is not applied to those Jews, who register later, but outwardly and not later than Saturday, August 9, 1942, till 5 o'clock, or declare that they are prepared to participate in the work-enlargement.
Meijer Bagger was registered in Camp Westerbork 6 August 1942; he was deported to Auschwitz 2 November and on arrival there 5 November 1942 immediately killed.
City Archive of Amsterdam, family registration card and archive card of Meijer Baggers; website wiewaswie.nl; http://geheugenvanplanzuid.nl/archief/tijdtijn/razzia%27s.htm; and the file cabinet of the Jewish Council, registration card of Meijer Baggers.