Rebecca Delden was the 3rd of the ten children of Jacob Delden and Leentje Ossedrijver. She was born on Amsterdam on 30 April 1901 and married there the peddler Emanuel Agsteribbe on 4 May 1921, a son of Salomon Agsteribbe and Rachel Cohen. The couple had two children, namely Salomon on 15 September 1921 and Len on 5 November 1922.
Also Emanuel Agsteribbe was born into a family of ten children, of whom he was the 2nd. One child, David, died already in December 1903, only five months old. Another child, Elias survived the Holocaust, together with his wife and three children. All others, one sister and six brothers and their families were killed during the Shoah. The parents had passed away already before the war: Salomon Agsteribbe in 1935, aged 60 and his wife Rachel Cohen at the age of 67 in 1937.
After Rebecca and Emanuel were married in 1921, they lived in the Korte Houtstraat 34 but moved in 1928 to house 31. Up from the end of October 1930 they moved into a house in the Krugerstraat 7 2nd floor in the Transvaal district of Amsterdam-East.
Their daughter Lena left her parental home on 16 December for her uncle Samuel Delden, who lived at Christiaan de Wetstraat 33 1st floor. Documents show that she has been carried off to Germany on 30 December 1942 but nothing is known about her fate between December 1942 and 1946. Eventually Lena has survived the Holocaust and on 24 April 1946 she married the 4-year older Holocaust survivor Jesayas Jacob Premselaar (1918-1991) and passed away on 14 March 2010. (source among others: Stambomen Joodse Families)
Their son Salomon has been deported from Westerbork to Auschwitz on 24 August 1942; as an 21-year old man he obviously has responded to the call for the so-called “Arbeitseinsatz” the provision of additional work in Germany under police surveillance, and reported in Westerbork. Notes on his registration card of the file cabinet of the Jewish Council show that Salomon Agsteribbe “deceased” in Auschwitz, as a result of a “Gastrointestinal cataract” as has been passed on to the JCC, the Jewish Coordination Commission of the Jewish Council by the Standesamt (registry office) of Auschwitz.
Rebecca Agsteribbe-Delden and her husband Emanuel Agsteribbe were arrested during the large-scale round-ups of early 1942 and carried off to Westerbork, where they ended up between 3 and 5 October 1942 in great chaos by the influx of Jewish forced labourers from the liquidated Jewish labour camps in the Northern Netherlands and the influx of the many arrested vicims of the raids.
Rebecca and Emanuel and 657 other deportees were put on transport on 30 October 1942 to Auschwitz. The deportation train made a stop at Kozel, located ±80 km west from Auschwitz, where 200 boys and men between 15 and 50 year were forced to leave the train, among them most likely also Emanuel Agsteribbe. They were all put to work as forced labourers in the surrounding labour camps of Upper Silesia.
However, those who remained in the train, were transported onwards to Auschwitz and upon arrival there on 2 November 1942, murdered in the gas chambers of Auschwitz-Birkenau. Among them also Rebecca Agsteribbe-Delden.
Emanuel Agsteribbe eventually ended up in Seibersdorf, a forced labour camp, located in the South of Poland near the Czech border. The conditions there were harsh and the facilities minimal. There Emanuel has lost his life and the Dutch Authorities have established after the war, also based on testimonials of survivors and research, that Emanuel Agsteribbe has died in Seibersdorf on 31 March 1943.
Sources include the City Archive of Amsterdam, family registration cards of Emanuel Agsteribbe and Salomon Agsteribbe (1874), archive cards of Emanuel Agsteribbe, Rebecca Delden-Agsteribbe, Salomon and Lena Agsteribbe and Jesaya Jacob Premselaar; website stenenarchief.nl/grave Jesaya Jacob Premselaar;; Amsterdam residence card of the Christiaan de Wetstraat 33 1st floor; the file cabinet of the Jewish Council, registration cards of Emanuel Agsteribbe, Rebecca Agsteribbe-Delden and Salomon Agsteribbe; website Memorial & Museum Auschwitz-Birkenau/Auschwitz Prisoners/Sterbebücher/Salomon Agsteribbe and the certificate of death no.194 made out in Amsterdam for Emanuel Agsteribbe dated 24 March 1953 from the A-register 99-folio 34.