Samson van Hesse, dealer in rags and a warehouseboss, married on 29 May 1912 in Rotterdam Hendrika David, who was born on 22 July 1890 in Rotterdam as a daughter of Simon David and Elizabeth Springers. Samson was a son of Joseph van Hesse and Ester Samson, also born in Rotterdam on 21 March 1890. The Van Hesse couple had one son: Joseph, born on 22 December 1912.
After their wedding in 1912, the Van Hessen’s lived in the Zoomstraaqt 126a in Rotterdam, but a number of re-locations followed such as to the Van Alkemadestraat, Van Alkemadeplein, the Meermanstraat and to the Goudseweg in 1937. At the time of the mandatory registration of the Jews in the Netherlands in 1941, Samson van Hesse lived with his wife in the Allard Piersonstraat 28b, which became also their last known address in Rotterdam.
After being taken to Westerbork in the early days of October 1942, Samson van Hesse and his spouse Hendrika van Hesse David were put on transport from Westerbork to Auschwitz on 16 October 1942, and on arrival there on 19 October 1942 immediately killed in the gas chambers of Auschwitz-Birkenau.
Sources include the City Archive of Rotterdam, family registration card of Samson van Hesse, the wedding certificate of Van Hesse/David; the file cabinet of the Jewish Council, registration cards of Samson van Hesse and Hendrika van Hesse-David and an addition of a visitor of the website (Harry de Boeck), made 1 December 2012.