The van Hessen family was a liberal and highly artistic Jewish family. They were very close, and took a keen interest in literature and music. David van Hessen was a sculptor, photographer and painter, but since he preferred life as a first-rate amateur to one as a second-rate professional artist, he worked for an American timber company. With this job he could be a good breadwinner, he said. Even…
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Tombstone for David van Hessen at the Jewish Cemetery at Zandpad in Utrecht.
He passed away 21 June 1943 in Utrecht and was interred there two days later.
This tombstone is also a memorial for his wife Adelheid Hilde Weil, who was killed 23 May 1943 in Sobibor and for their son, who was killed in Auschwitz on 29 February 1944.
Person is in the National Database of Victims of Persecution