Andries Ossendrijver, born 30 May 1866, was a son of Abraham Moses Ossendrijver and Cato Ansel. He married Hanna de Vries in Amsterdam on 17 August 1887, a daughter of Alexander Levie de Vries and Ester Sarfati. The couple had eight children, namely Cato, Alexander, Abraham, Samuel, Esther, Schoontje, Meijer and Rebecca. Only Meijer and Esther and their families have survived the Holocaust; all other children were killed in the Shoah.
Andries Ossendrijver was a diamond polisher by trade but he was also a vendor of cleaning products on the street market in the Westerstraat on Mondays since 1930. After his wedding to Hanna de Vries in 1887, the couple lived at Nieuwe Kerkstraat 60 in Amsterdam. In the following years they moved to Weesperstraat 112 and 116 and in 1929 to and to Ruyschstraat 92, where his youngest daughter Rebecca and her husband Barend Yzak Vleeschdrager already lived after their marriage on 15 December 1927; both families moved in 1937 from Ruyschstraat to Tilanusstraat 19 and two years later, on 22 August 1939 all moved again in the same street to house nr. 22 parterre.
Andries Ossendrijver passed away in Amsterdam on 4 December 1940 and he was interred in the Jewish Cemetery in Muiderberg two days later. His spouse on the contrary was taken 13 September 1942 to Westerbork, where she was put on transport to Auschwitz on 25 September. On arrival there on 28 September 1942 Hanna Ossendrijver-de Vries was immediately killed.
Sources among others: City Archive of Amsterdam, family registration card and archive card of Andries Ossendcrijver; website wiewaswie.nl/wedding Andries Ossendrijver; website Akevoth/Mokum/Burialpermits/Andries Ossenddrijver and the file cabinet of the Jewish Council, registration card of Hanna Ossendrijver-de Vries.