Biography

About Meijer Salomon Stad

Meijer Salomon Stad was a son of Salomon Meijer Stad and Naatje de Leeuwe. On 24 June 1885 he married Sara Schaap in Rotterdam, a daughter of David Schaap and Hendrika de la Costa. The couple had eight children, namely Hendrika, David, Anna, Joël, Maurits, Isaac, Maria en Barend. Their daughter Maria died in 1901, less than two years old and their son Joël left Rotterdam for Hoboken City in New Jersey (USA) in 1917. All other children were killed in the Shoah. Also his wife Sara, she was killed in Sobibor.

Meier 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. 

City Archive of Rotterdam, family registration card of Meijer Salomon Stad; website www.wiewaswie.nl and www.familysearch.org, United States World War I Draft Registration Cards, 1917-1918 regarding Joël Stad.