Biography

About Frederik Salomon Goedhart and his family.

Frederik Salomon Goedhart, born in Amsterdam in 1899 as son of Rudolf Goedhart and Roosjs Roselaar, married 31 August 1923 in Hengelo (Ov) Hertha Lievendag, who was born 4 May 1899 in Borne as daughter of Julius Lievendag and Elfriede Buchheimer.

Frederik Salomon Goedhart left for Antwerp  on 1 June 1922 where he was employed as office clerk at Lange Nieuwstraat 44. Hertha Lievendag left 3 September 1923 for Antwerp where she went living with her husband at Brederodestraat 82 and where she had three children with him, namely Julius Rudolf on 2 December 1924, Rose Elfriede on 22 April 1926 and Liliane Dorothea on 21 October 1930. Two months later Hertha Lievendag passed away on 18 December 1930; she has been interred in the Jewish Cemetery of Putte.

Frederik Salomon Goedhart married the 2nd time to Sara Blitz, born 29 August 1907 in Amsterdam, a daughter of David Blitz and Carolina Breebaart. She left Amsterdam for Antwerp 21 October 1930 , however, an exact wedding date is not known but probably the marriage was completed somewhere in 1931 in Antwerp, after Hertha Lievendag passed away 18 December 1930. From this 2nd marriage a son was born 29 September 1936: Robert David.

Most likely Frederik Salomon Goedhart has made attempts to escape persecution in Belgium with his family. In September 1942 he and his family were arrested in Paris at the address Rue du Bessin nr. 4 in the 15th district and deported with convoy 33 on 16 September 1942 from transit camp Drancy to Auschwitz. Frederik Salomon Goedhart, his son Julius Rudolf and his daughter Rose Elfriede were killed in Auschwitz on arrival there 19 September 1942. However the exact place and date of death for Sara Goedhart-Blitz and her son Robert David Goedhart is not kown;  the date mentioned here as 16 September 1942 is the date of deportation from Drancy to Auschwitz.

Only Lilian Dorothea Goedhart has survived the Shoah. After the war she came to Amsterdam and from there she left for Stadskanaal in 1970.

Sources: City Archive of Amsterdam, archive card of David Blitz and the family registration card of Sara Blitz; the Dossier of Foreigners of the City of Antwerp, nr. 169704, images 654-663  and the list of transport  regarding convoy 33 Drancy-Auschwitz by the Memorial de la Shoah.

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