Biography

About Hijman Doof

Hijman Doof married Sara Sterk in Westerbork transit camp on 30 July 1942. He was a typographer by profession. On the wedding day his father, Simon Doof, had already passed away; his mother, the widow Betje Doof-van Dam, lived in Amsterdam.
Sara Sterk was a seamstress. She was a daughter of the butcher Tobias Sterk. Her mother survived the war. Her parents lived in Amsterdam.
Record of marriage certificates of the Westerbork municipality, currently at the archives of Gemeente Midden-Drenthe in Beilen

This person is commemorated on a memorial in Vierhouten. More information on this memorial can be found (in Dutch) on the website of the Nationaal Comité 4 en 5 mei.