Biography

About Aron van Bever

Aron van Bever,  a dealer in second hand furniture, was a son of Samson van Bever and Sientje Smeer. He married 14 June 1939 a non-Jewish woman, who was divorced from her first husband; with him she had three children. Aron too had with her three children, but all six children, living with their parents have survived the Holocaust, just as their mother. Aron van Bever however, lost his life on 7 February 1945 in Gross Rosen.

Aron self was born into a family of ten children. Three children have died in childhood, long before the war. One daughter passed away in Amsterdam during the Holocaust. But he self, his brothers  Samuel, Simon and Salomon and his sisters Sara and Heintje have been killed in the Shoah.

City Archive of Amsterdam, archive card of Aron van Bever and Samson van Bever.