Biography

About Eva, Beletje and Abraham Ossedrijver.

 

The three unmarried children from Jacob Ossedrijver and Vrouwtje Gans were Eva, born in 1867, Beletje, born in 1869 and Abraham who was born in 1875. They had a brother Hartog, born in 1864 who was married to Henriette Broekman and who had passed in 1939 and also a sister Leentje, born in 1881, also married but killed in the Shoah. Also Eva, Beletje and Abraham were killed during the Holocaust.

Eva, Beletje and Abraham lived with their parents in their parental home till 1924. Beletje worked as servant maid and Abraham was a docker. For Eva no profession was registered.

On 20 June 1924 they moved to their brother Hartog, who then lived at Oude Waal 31 in Amsterdam. But when Hartog left for the Joodsche Invalide on Weesperplein 1 in 1935, where he passed on 14 January 1939,  they moved in with their unmarried nephew Isaac Ossedrijver (1892), who then resided in Transvaalstraat 116 2nd floor. There Eva and Abraham stayed till they were taken by the German occupiers to Westerbork. Beletje however moved 24 Decemer 1942 still to the Joodsche Invalide.

On 13 March 1943 was Eva taken to Westerbork where she had to stay in barrack 62. On 23 March she was put on transport to Sobibor and on arrival there on 26 March 1943 she has been immediately killed.

Per 24 December 1942 Beletje lived in the Joodsche Invalide on Weesperplein 1 in Amsterdam. From 1937 the new building was built there which remained in use until 1 March 1943. Then 256 persons (patients and staff) were deported, among them also Beletje Ossedrijver. In Westerbork she ended up in barrack 85 and on 10 March she and the others were deported to Sobibor. On arrival there on 13 march Beletje Ossedrijver was immediately killed.

Abraham Ossedrijver was employed in the port of Amsterdam as docker. From the autumn in 1942 no longer calles were sent for the expansion of provisional work in Germany. Now the Jews were taken unexpectedly from their homes. Probably this happened to Abraham too in the end of November as on 4 December he was put on transport from Westerbork to Auschwitz and on arrival there on 7 December 1942, immediately killed.

Sources among others: City Archive of Amsterdam, family registration cards and archive cards of Jacob Ossedrijver, Eva, Beletje en Abraham Ossedrijver and the file cabinet of the Jewish Council, registration cards of Eva Ossedrijver, Beletje Ossedrijver en Abraham Ossedrijver.

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