Mietje David was the daughter of Wolf David and Antonette Andriessen. She was born in Rotterdam on 3 July 1891, as the third of the six children in the family. Mietje married on 27 October 1915 in Rotterdam to Maurits Glaser, dealer in bicycles, electrical and lighting products, who was born in Nijmegen on 27 November 1891 as the son of Isaac Glaser and Bertha Blomhof.
The Glaser couple had three children; the first was Bertha, who died however on 19 February 1918, only 8 months old. Then on 15 May 1921, Wolf was born, usually called Willi and third came Antonetta, called Netty, on 4 April 1924. The whole family was killed in Sobibor on 9 April 1943.
On 23 April 1910, Maurits moved with his parents and siblings from Nijmegen to Culemborg, where they only lived for a year. The Glaser family then moved to Rotterdam on 6 May 1911. Between 1911 and 1914 Maurits stayed not only in Rotterdam, but also in Leiden, but on 20 August 1914 Maurits was registered again Rotterdam at Heerenstraat 9. After his marriage to Mietje David in October 1915, she moved in with him.
After having moved six more times in the city of Rotterdam, they ended up at Stationsweg 32a on 19 November 1936. However, on 3 September 1940, most likely as a result of the German bombardment of Rotterdam on 14 May 1940, the family left for Amsterdam, where they were housed near the Roelof Hartplein in the Van Baerlestraat 172 II. Three months later, on 5 December, the family was able to move into a house in the Niersstraat 30 II in Amsterdam-Zuid. Their last known address in Amsterdam became Sarphatipark 4 I on 12 September 1941, renamed by the Germans in Bollandpark, where they met Mietje’s sister Kaatje and her husband Meijer Waterman, who also had to move from Rotterdam to Amsterdam for the same reason.
From the book “Dancing with the Enemy” (Dansen met de vijand), written by Paul Glaser, it appears that the Maurits Glaser family went into hiding in Dahliastraat in Woerden, and that they were arrested there, apparently after being betrayed there. The registration cards of the Jewish Council indicate that they were registered in Westerbork on the night of April 1 to 2, 1943, where they had to await their deportation in barrack 63. On 6 April Maurits Glaser, his wife Mietje Glaser-David and their children were Wolf (Willi) and Antonetta (Netty) were deported to Sobibor, where on arrival on 9 April 1943 they were immediately killed in the gas chambers there.
Sources including the Regional Archives Rivierenland, population register Culemborg / Glaser; City Archives of Rotterdam, registration card Maurits Glaser's population register, family card of Maurits Glaser; the Amsterdam City Archives, archive cards of Maurits Glaser, Mietje David and Wolf and Antonetta Glaser; the archives of the Jewish Council, registration cards of Maurits Glaser, Mietje Glaser-David, Wolf Glaser and Antonetta Glaser; the book “Destruction camp Sobibor” by Jules Schelvis, transport list of 6 April 1943, page 353 and additions and information from visitors (Paul Glaser)of the website.