Daniel de Haan, diamond polisher by trade, was born in Amsterdam on 12 November 1912 as a son of Simon de Haan and Anna Engelsman. On 10 April 1940 he married in Amsterdam Alida Vogel, born there too on 2 August 1914 as a daughter of Joseph Vogel and his first wife Lina de Korte and employed as a seamstress. The couple had no children.
Daniel’s father Simon de Haan, who was a joiner by trade, passed away there at the young age of 29 years on 7 November 1918 and was interred in the Jewish Cemetery in Diemen. His mother, wo then lived at Vrolijkstraat 381 with her children Hanna,Gijsina and Daniel himself, did not remarry after the passing of her husband. In 1932 they moved to Transvaalstraat 54 1st floor in Amsterdam-East.
After his father had passed away, the just 9-year old Daniel was sent in December 1920 to Borgerhout where his uncle Nathan Engelsman lived at Bleckhofstraat 97. Also his uncle Izak Engelsman stayed there. Later Daniel became working in the diamond industry and returned to Amsterdam only in 1930 and in 1932 he moved along with his mother to Transvaalstraat.
On 10 April 1940, after the marriage had been concluded, Daniel de Haan and his bride Alida Volgen moved into a hous at Kromme Mijdrechtstraat 73 3rd floor in Amsterdam-South. At the same time, his mother left Amsterdam for Egmond aan Zee, from where she six months later returned to Amsterdam and till her death has lived at about six different addresses in the city.
On 12 July 1942 Daniel and Alida were called for the provision of additional work under police surveillance in Germany, the so-called “Arbeitseinsatz”, but were then – reason unknown – provisionally exempted from deportation. However, in the end both were arrested by the Germans during the secretly prepared round-up on 20 June 1943 and carried off to Westerbork, where Alida ended up in barrack 65 and Daniel in barrack 60.
On 13 July Daniel and Alida were put on transport to Sobibor, where upon arrival there on 16 July 1943, they immediately were murdered in the gas chambers there.
Sources include the City Archive of Amsterdam, family registration cards of Simon de Haan and Isaäc Vogel, archive cards of Daniel de Haan, Anna Engelsman and Alida Vogel; the Felix archive of Antwerp, dossier of foreigners nr. 1512 of Daniel de Haan; Website stenenarchiev.nl/grave Simon de Haan 1889-1918; residence cards Amsterdam/ Transvaalstraat 54 I and Kromme Mijdrechtstraat 73 III; the file cabinet of the Jewish Council, registration cards of Daniel de Haan and Alida de Haan-Vogel.