Hartog Schaap was a son of Hijman Hartog Schaap and Sara van de Beek. He was born in Hilversum on 30 January 1861 and started his working life as a butcher. On 17 March 1903, he married Johanna Gobas in Oldenzaal, a daughter of Arie Gobas and Judik Marcus who was born there on 21 October 1879. After the marriage, Hartog and Johanna lived in Hilversum, where their son Hijman Arie was born on 15 December 1903. Julia followed in 1906 and on 27 March 1909, the twins Sara and Adolf were born.
On 25 November 1912 the Schaap family moved to Amsterdam; they lived there at Tuinstraat 192 but on 7 March 1913 they already moved to Nieuwe Keizersgracht 45. In the meantime Hartog Schaap had become a dealer of all kinds of merchandise, he more or less went his own way and he no longer lived with his family. On 26 January 1916, Johanna Schaap-Gobas left for Oldenzaal where she lived with her sons Hijman Arie and Adolf and daughter Sara at Ootmarsumsestraat 19. The 10-year-old daughter Julia had already been sent from Amsterdam to family in Enschede on 12 January 1916, where she lived at 4 Hofstraat.
From 1916 Hartog Schaap led a nomadic life and tried to make a living as a singer and artist. On 26 January 1916, Hartog left for Hilversum, where his 2-year younger sister Helena Schaap lived. She had already become a widow of Louis Benjamin de Leeuw in March 1897 and earned her living as a female vendor and as a boarding house keeper.
At the end of August 1917, Hartog was back in Amsterdam where he stayed in a guest house at Bloedstraat 16. In the years up to ± 1934 he regularly stayed in Hilversum, but in the same period, when he came back to Amsterdam, he lived more or less at 13 different addresses in the old city center (residences or lodgings). He stayed from 23 February 1927 to 29 September 1927 in the people's lodging house Metropool of the Salvation Army at Spuistraat 82 and from 26 October 1927 to 21 November 1928 in the Municipal Nursing Home/Stedelijk Armenhuis of Amsterdam at Roetersstraat 2.
On 16 April 1934 Hartog stayed at the Oude Zijden Achterburgwal 37 ground floor and from September 1939 at house number 43. From the end of May 1941, Hartog found shelter again with the Salvation Army at Spuistraat 82, but at the end of the year 1941 he had no shelter anymore, which had everything to do with the anti-Jewish measures that the Germans had introduced. (Jews not wanted - Prohibited for Jews).
A police report of Wednesday 31 December 1941 from the Station Jonas Daniel Meijerplein shows that “Hartog Schaap, born in Hilversum on 30-01-1861, without occupation, without permanent residence or residence, requests a night stay, as according to his statement, because he is Jewish, he will not be accommodated in any lodging. Will be given overnight accommodation ”, but that on 1 January 1942, after being granted overnight accommodation, he was dismissed in the morning.
A subsequent report of 1 January 1942 shows that Hartog Schaap was brought into the police station and that further reads: “brought in from the Joodsche Invalide Weesperplein, a person (Jew) named Hartog Schaap, born in Hilversum on 30 January 1861, without profession, without permanent residence. Schaap, who had slept for a few nights at the Salvation Army in the Spuistraat, tried to find shelter with the Joodsche Invalide, but his request could not be fulfilled there. He is given a night quarters to this station”. Also on 2 January 1942 Hartog Schaap remains “in custody” for a night stay.
In mid-March 1942 Hartog Schaap stays at Rapenburg 98 ground floor, where boarding house no.1 is located of "De Maatschappij van den Werkenden Stand". Hartog was registered as a resident there from 17 March 1942 and on 30 December 1942 he was de-registered administratively “to Germany”.
Hartog's registration card from the Jewish Council shows that he would have been deported to Westerbork on 8 November 1942, but there are also notes on his card that indicate that he would have been deported “in October”. It is not clear what exactly happened to Hartog Schaap; Apparently he was transported, but he is nowhere to be found, not among victims, nor in registers or certificates of death. If Hartog Schaap would have been deported in October 1942, he would probably have ended up in Auschwitz and murdered there in the gas chambers.
Sources include the Amsterdam City Archives, family cards of Hartog Schaap, archive card Hartog Schaap, Police reports 1941/1942 Hartog Schaap, Special registers Spuistraat 82 and Roetersstraat 2 Hartog Schaap, Residence card Rapenburg 98 hs / Hartog Schaap; the archives of the Jewish Council, registration card of Hartog Schaap and the website Oorlogsdoden Oldenzaal.nl.