Sara Samson, born 21 November 1856 in Rotterdam, was a daughter of Samson Anthonij Samson and Elizabeth Brandel. On 1 March 1882 she married Aäron Prins in Rotterdam, who was born 29 December 1858 in Leiden as son of Samuel Prins and Roosje Huisman. The couple had four children, namely Samuel, Elizabeth, Roosje and Esther.
Sara’s daughter Esther was the youngest of her four children. She was born 10 October 1889 in Rotterdam, but passed away there on 19 March 1909, only 19 years old. She was interred in the Jewish Cemetery Toepad in Rotterdam.
Sara’s eldest was her son Samuel Prins, who called himself Eduard. He was born on 3 May 1883 in Rotterdam but passed away in Scheveningen on 10 December 1940. He then lived with his mother in with his sister Elizabeth and her husband Louis van Gelder at Gevers Deynootweg 192. Samuel Prins was interred as Eduard Prins in the Jewish Cemetery Toepad in Rotterdam. He was unmarried.
Of Sara’s daughter Roosje, who was born 20 August 1887 in Rotterdam and was married 19 December 1918 in Rotterdam to Felix Sali Sontheimer from Stuttgart, is nothing else known of her.
Sara Samson herself lived since 20 November 1931 in at Gevers Deynootweg 192 in Scheveningen with her daughter Elizabeth, who was married to Louis van Gelder and was already for quite some time widowed from Aäron Prins. Before she arrived in Scheveingen, she stayed for some time in Bad Brückenau in Bavaria (Germany), a municipality which is known for its medicinal baths. On 14 October 1940 Sara Prins-Samson passed away in Scheveningen and was interred in the Jewish Cemetery Toepad in Rotterdam.
Sources among others: Peoples Registery City Archive of Rotterdam/Samson Anthonij Samson; website wiewaswie.nl/marriage Sara Samson/Aäron Prins; Municipal Archive of Den Haag, family registration card of Sara Samson; website hetstenenarchief.nl/graves of Sara Prins-Samson, Samuel/Eduard Prins and Esther Prins.