Louise de Swarte-van Dal

Hijman de Swarte was a son of Ruben de Swarte and Rebecca de Swarte. His parents were cousins and they had eight children together, viz. Meijer, Abraham Lion, Sara, Izaak, Judith, Joseph, Barend and Hijman. Barens died already after five weeks and Joseph survived the war. All the others were murdered during the Shoah.

As the 4^th  child Hijman was born on 24 January 1887 in Amsterdam. He was a merc…

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Sara de Swarte was een dochter van Hijman en Louise de Swarte geboren in 1916. Ze is de oorlog door gekomen en is gestorven in 2004 in Ridderkerk.