Abraham Querido, born 13 May 1889 in Amsterdam, was a son of Abraham Querido and Ribca Morpurgo. He was married 21 October 1914 in Amsterdam to Marianne Roeg, who was born 19 February 1894 in Amsterdam as daughter of Samuel Roeg and Elisabeth van Bever. The couple had four children, namely Ribca in 1914, Samuel in 1915, Carolina Lavina in 1918 and Elisabeth in 1919. Ribca and Samuel were killed during the Shoah; Carolina Lavina died 18 November 1918 as a baby of 4 months old and Elisabeth died 7 March 1920, only three months old. Also Abraham and Marianne have been killed in Sobibor.
Abraham Querido was a rag dealer and lived with his family at Transvaalkade 122 in Amsterdam-East. Together with his wife Marianne Roeg he was arrested 10 December 1942 and carried off to Weserbork and housed in barrack 70. Also their eldest daughter Ribca was registered that same day in Westerbork and ended up in barrack 70 too.
However, their son Samuel was already arrested in February 1941 at the time of the “February Strike” in Amsterdam. Belonging to the so-called “February group” he was taken during the round-ups, which were held on 22 and 23 February, and carried off via Camp Schoorl to Buchenwald on 27 February, and from there deported to Mauthausen on 22 May, where Samuel Querido got killed on 6 September 1941.
Ribca Querido, who was a seamstress by profession and unmarried, was only deported from Westerbork to Sobibor on 13 July 1943. On arrival there on 16 July 1943, she was killed immediately in the gas chambers there.
Abraham Querido and his wife Marianne Roeg were put on transport already prior to Ribca: they were deported from Westerbork to Sobibor with the 2nd transport to that place, which contained 1105 Jews, including orphans from the Jewish Orphanage in Den Haag. This transport can in retrospect be called special for two reasons: firstly because this was the last transport from Westerbork to Sobibor for which a passenger train was deployed. Livestock or freight wagons were invariably used for the seventeen subsequent transports. A second reason why the transport of 10 March 1943 was special was the number of surivors. Thirteen women of the deportees would survive the Holocaust. However Abraham Querido, his wife Marianne Roeg and nearly all other deportees were immediately killed upon arrival there on 13 March 1943.
Sources include the City Archive of Amsterdam, archive cards of Abraham Querido and Marianne Roeg; certificates of death 1920, reg.4-fol.56 for Elisabeth Querido and 1918, reg.17-fol 19 for Carolina Lavina Querido; the file cabinet of the Jewish Council, registration cards of Abraham Querido, Marianne Roeg, Ribca and Samuel Querido; website Mauthausen.nl; wikipedia website Jodentransporten vanuit Nederland.nl; website sobibor.org, the 19 trains to Sobibor and an addition of a visitor of the website.