Biography

About Samuel Trijtel

Samuel Trijtel, an expedition servant, longshoreman and errand boy, was a son of David Trijtel and Saartje Wallach. He married 23 October 1912 in Amsterdam to Eva Vischjager, a daughter of Elias Vischjager and Leentje Swaleff. The couple had ten children. Two of them, Sara and Philip have died in infancy. Their daughter Clara stayed in Apeldoorn in the Pedagogium Achisomog. She has been killed in Auschwitz on 13 November 1942. Three children, namely Leentje, David and Elias were already married and resided with their families at other addresses in Amsterdam. They too were killed in the Shoah. The more children living at home, Jacob, Philip and Jozep have been deported on 17 March 1943 from transit camp Westerbork to Sobibor, toghether with their parents Samuel Trijtel and Eva Vischjager, where they have been killed immediately upon arrival there on 20 March 1943. Only Sara has been killed already on 7 September 1942 in Auschwitz. She was 19 years old.

City Archive of Amsterdam, archive cards of Samuel Trijtel and Eva Vischjager, the file cabinet of the Jewish Council of Amsterdam, records of the Trijtel family; the website www.wiewaswie.nl and an addition of a visitor of the website.