Biography

About Vogelina Snijders, her spouse Willem Agsteribbe and her children Selma and Leo.

Vogelina Snijders was a daughter of Joseph Snijders and Klaartje Snijders-Bosboom. 30 April 1924 she married Willem Agsteribbe in Amsterdam, a son of Liepman Agsteribbe and Sara Schaap. The couple had two children, namely Selma and Leo, who both were killed in the Shoah.

Vogelina, her husband and children were registered in Camp Westerbork 5 September 1942 and two days later, 7 September deported to Auschwitz. There, upon arrival 10 Septembe 1942, Vogelina and both her children Selma and Leo were killed immediately. Her husband Willem Agsteribbe was bound to do hard labor and eventually he lost is life after about six months in Seibersdorf 31 Maart 1943.

City Archive of Amsterdam, archive cards of Vogelina Snijders and Willem Agsteribbe; website www.wiewaswie.nl and the file cabinet of the Jewish Council, registration cards of the Agsteribbe family.

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