Biography

About Salomon Delmonte and his family

Salomon Delmonte, butcher, was a son of Emanuel Delmonte and Betje Mendels. The family lived in Amsterdam where he, his two brothers Jacob and Abraham and his sister Mina were born. His father Emanuel Delmonte passed away on 8 November 1918 and was interred two days later in the Portuguese Israelitic Cemetery Beth Haim in Ouderkerk a.d. Amstel. His mother Betje was killed in Auschwitz on 14 September 1942. Salomon, not married, lived with his mother and was already killed in Auschwitz on 11 August 1942. 

His sister Mina married Leon Levie in Amsterdam on 28 July 1937 and they had two children. All have been killed in Sobibor on 4 June 1943.

His brother Jacob married Grietje Nunes Cardozo on 6 August 1941 and they had a son on 24 March 1943, who has survived the Holocaust by hiding.

When his brother Abraham was two years old, he was placed on 27 September 1910 as fosterson with his mother's brother, Emanuel Mendels and his wife Elsje Davidson, who resided in Wolvega. This couple had no children. Abraham stayed the rest of his life in Wolvega and worked as a bookkeeper in the export slaughterhouse of his fosterfather. When the German troups invaded the Netherlands in May 1940, he served as a sergeant with the guards. He was stationed in Amsterdam. After the capitulation of the Netherlands, he took his own life on 15 May 1940.

City Archive of Amsterdam, archive cards of  Salomon Delmonte, Betje Mendels, Akevoth/Portugees Isr. Begraafplaats Beth Haim, an addition of a visitor of the website and W.H. de Vries, ’De oorlog in Stellingwarven‘, in: De Ovend. Stellingwarfs Tiedschrift, nr 32, 17-19.