Dina de Groot-Muller

Asser de Groot was a son of Samuel de Groot and Elisabeth Wertheijm. 20 March 1918 he married in Amsterdam Dina Muller, a daugher of Hartog Levij Muller and Mietje van Strien. As far as have been researched, the couple had one son, namely Harry, who married Rebecca Zippora de Lange in 1942 and was killed in the Shoah.

Asser de Groot was representative and depot holder of cigars, but also debt coll…

Sunday 20 June 1943: in the southern and eastern part of Amsterdam a big raid has taken place on the last remaining Jews in the city. Germans as well as the Amsterdam police blocked all streets, went into houses to bring the Jews to the gathering places.

At this raid, a large part of the remaining Jews of Amsterdam-East and South were made “ready to march” (marschfertig). The Germans boasted about…