Arnold Klatser was a son of Abraham Klatser and Rosette de Boers. He was born in Amsterdam on 15 September 1884 and he was a diamond cutter by profession. On 3 January 1907 he married Truitje Stodel in Amsterdam, who was born there on 24 April 1885 as a daughter of Joseph Stodel and Elizabeth (Betje) Metz. After their wedding, the couple moved to the Municipality of Watergraafsmeer, where their only son Abraham was born on 16 June 1908.
Early April 1912, the Arnold Klatser family returned in Amsterdam and lived then at 2e Boerhavestraat 76 in Amsterdam-East. In 1913 they moved to 2e Oosterparksstraat 229 and the end of March 1915, they moved into a house at Swammerdamstraat 26 ground floor. After another four relocations, as to Ruyschstraat, to Govert Flinckstraat, to Nieuwe Tolstraat and to Pieter Aertsstraat, they were registered per 8 January 1932 at the address Kromme Mijdrechtstraat 34 ground floor in Amsterdam-South. Their last move was on 6 May 1940 to house nr. 44 in the same street.
In the night of 23 to 24 July 1943, Arnold Klatser and his wife Truitje Stodel were carried off to concentration camp Vught. There they have stayed till 11 September and then from Vught transported to Westerbork, where Arnold Klatser ended up in the sick bay of barrack 81end his wife Truitje in barrack 62.
Arnold Klatser then passed away on 16 September 1943 in Westerbork. On 20 September he was cremated there and the urn with his ashes was buried in the Jewish Cemetery in Diemen. Truitje Stodel was the day after, on 21 September 1943 put on transport to Auschwitz and upon arrival there on 24 September 1943 immediately murdered in the gas chambers of Auschwitz-Birkenau.
Sources include the City Archive, family registration card of Arnold Klatser, archive cards of Arnold Klatser and Truitje Stodel; the website ITS Arolson/camp cards Vught for Arnold Klatser and Truitje Klatser-Stodel and the file cabinet of the Jewish Council, registration cards of Arnold Klatser and Truitje Stodel.