Sara Schaap, a daughter of David Schaap and Hendrika de la Costa married 24 June 1885 Meijer Salomon Stad in Rotterdam, a son of Salomon Meijer Stad and Naatje de Leeuwe. The couple had eight children, namely Hendrika, David, Anna, Joël, Maurits, Isaac, Maria en Barend. Her daughter Maria died in 1901, less than two years old and her son Joël left Rotterdam for Hoboken City in New Jersey (USA) in 1917. All other children were killed in the Shoah. Her husband Meijer Salomon Stad passed away in Rotterdam on 19 July 1940 and the funeral records at the Jewish cemetery in Rotterdam reveal that Meijer Salomon Stad was buried there.
After the passing of her husband in July 1940, she moved even several times; she went to the Israelitich Oldpeople Institute at Claes de Vrieslaan 70 in Rotterdam, where she stayed untill January 1942. Then she moved from there to Amsterdam, Jodenbreestraat 70 II and again in November 1942 she went to Raamgracht 67 II in Amsterdam until May 1943.
On 20 May 1943 Sara Schaap was registerded in Camp Westerbork where she stayed in barack 55. On 25 May she was deported to Sobibor where she has been killed immediately upon arrival there on 28 May 1943.
City Archive of Rotterdam, family registration card of Meijer Salomon Stad; website www.wiewaswie.nl; www.familysearch.org, United States World War I Draft Registration Cards, 1917-1918 regarding Joël Stad;City Archive of Amsterdam, archive card of Sara Schaap and the file cabinet of the Jewish Council, card of Sara Stad-Schaap.