Biography

About Anna de Groot

Anna de Groot was a daughter of Salomon Elias de Groot and Roosje Peper. She was unmarried.
She had siblings: Elias, Philip, Levie who were also killed during the Holocaust and a sister Elisabeth from whom nothing further has become known so far.
City Archive of Amsterdam, family registration card of Salomon Elias de Groot.

Anna de Groot joined the Hollandia-Kattenburg textile factory in Amsterdam on 3 June 1926. On Wednesday, 11 November 1942, around 4:30 PM, Willy Lages conducted the Sicherheitspolizei raid on the Hollandia factories. All exits were blocked, and the Jewish staff members were taken away that evening. Photographs of all workers taken away that evening, as well as those deported previously, appear in the 'Boek der tranen' [Book of tears].
Jewish Historical Museum, Documents collection, inv.nr B1376, 'Boek der tranen' [Book of tears]