Salomon de Vries, born 1872 at Spijkenisse, was a son of Samuel de Vries and Kaatje van der Meuzen. 2 April 1902 he married at Heenvliet Keetje van der Hoek from Heenvliet, born 1868, a daughter of Abraham van der Hoek and Hendrieta de Vries and those days, Salomon was a “keeper of a lodging bureau” by trade. The couple had two children, Cato Henriette Bertha in 1903 and in 1905 Abraham Samuel was born.
After being registered again in the Rotterdam Peoples Registry in 1910, after returned from Den Haag, the De Vries family lived at various addresses, however from 1 June 1934, their addres became Hugo de Grootstraat 142c where they moved in with the family of Azor Boeki, the father-in-law of Salomon’s son Abraham Samuel, who would marry Azor Boeki’s daughter Aaltje 25 July 1934. Per 14 August 1940 they moved with their son Abraham Samuel and family to Willem Buijtewechstraat 206c where they only stayed for a short period as 7 November 1940 they moved again with the family of his son to Schepenstraat 95c. That was also their last known address in Rotterdam.
2 December 1942 Salomon de Vries and his wife Keetje van der Hoek were deported to Camp Westerbork and put on transport to Auschwitz 8 December. Upon arrival there 11 December 1942 they have been immediately killed.
Also their unmarried daughter Cato Henriette Bertha de Vries, who worked as office clerk and lived still at home with her parents, was also deported to Westerbork that 2nd December 1942. She stayed in barack 67 till she was put on transport 20 February 1943 to concentration camp Vught. 3 July 1943 she was sent back to Westerbork to stay for some more days at barack 65 waiting for deportation to Sobibor 6 July 1943 and upon arrival there she was killed immediately 9 July 1943.
City Archive of Rotterdam, family registration cards of Salomon de Vries and Abraham Samuel de Vries; website www.wiewaswie.nl, marriage Salomon de Vries; the file cabinet of the Jewish Council, registration cards of Salomon de Vries, Keetje de Vries-van der Hoek and Cato H.B.de Vries and an addition of a visitor of the website.