Schoontje Ossendrijver, born 2 september 1897 in Amsterdam, was a daughter of Andries Ossendrijver and Hanna de Vries. She married 28 May 1920 in Amsterdam the in Leeuwarden born Jacobus Broekhuijsen, a son of Aron Broekhuijsen and Leentje Dwinger, The couple had no children, but they took a forster child into their house, Salomon Denneboom a son of the unmarried mother Aaltje Denneboom. In May 1941, Salomon received the familyname of his foster parents.
Jacobus Broekhuijsen lived at Nieuwe Prinsengracht 79, near Israël Knorringa – as recorded at the family registration card of the Amsterdam City Archive – the father of his later associate Marcus Knorringa. Jacobus moved in August 1917 to Weesperstraat and moved again 30 January 1920 to Waterlooplein 179.
After the solemnization of the marriage of Jacobus and Schoontje, the couple moved to Lepelkruisstraat 5 2nd floor. After two more removals, Jacobus and Schoontje moved into a house at Huddekade 5 in Amsterdam, where Jacobus Broekhuijsen and his brother-in-law Marcus Knorringa as his partner, runned the “Nederlandse Schortenfabriek”(The Dutch Apron Factory). (Marcus Knorriga was married to Esther Ossendrijver, a sister of Schoontje Ossendrijver, but the Knorringa family survived the Holocaust).
In 1943, the Broekhuijsen family had to move again, at first on 6 March 1943 to Plantage Franschelaan 11a and three weeks later, on 25 march 1943 to Plantage Kerklaan 55 upper-house. Jacobus however had a “Sperre” (exemption from deportation). Since 1 January 1943 he was appointed as inspector in the department financial management at the Jewish Council, located at Vening Meineszkade 11 in Amsterdam. Formerly he used to work as dealer of ladies fashion.
Despite the exemption from deportation, Jacobus and his wife Schoontje and foster son Salomon were taken in the night of 1–2 April 1943 to concentration camp Vught. There they stayed till Schoontje and her fosterson Salomon were deported via Westerbork with the so-called children transport to Sobibor. After a night in the Westerbork barrack 62 they were put on transport again the 8th of June and on arrival in Sobibor on 11 June 1943, both were immiately killed.
Jacob Broekhuijsen however stayed in Vught till 15 November 1943. That date he and 1148 other deportees were put on transport to Auschwitz, where on arrival 18 December he was selected as a forced labourer. Unknown is whether Jacobus had to perform hard labor in- or outside the camp but eventually he lost his life in Auschwitz on 31 January 1944.
Sources among others: City Archive of Amsterdam, family registration card of Jacobus Broekhuijsen; archive cards of Jacobus Broekhuijsen, Schoontje Ossendrijver and Salomon Broekhuijsen; residence cards of Nieuwe Prinsengracht 79 and Huddekade 5; the wikipedia website “Jodentransporten vanuit Nederland” and the file cabinet of the Jewish Council, registration cards of Jacobus Broekhuijsen, Schoontje Broekhuijsen-Ossendrijver and Salomon Broekhuijsen.