Hartog van Geldere was born in Doesburg on 21 August 1891 as a son of Saul van Geldere and Sientje Fransman. Before he married on 24 June 1920 to Fijtje Parsser, who was born in Amsterdam on 2 January 1891 as the daughter of Levie Parsser and Vrouwtje Nerden. Hartog van Geldere worked since 9 November 1909 till 2 March 1912 as a tailor with Salomon Hanouwer in Zutphen. Per 4 March 1912, he was working as a male nurse in the Dutch Israëlitic Hospital at Nieuwe Kerkstraat 135 in Amsterdam, where he stayed 3 months. Then Hartog left Amsterdam on 7 June 1912 for Doesburg again.
During the years between June 1912 and June 1916, Hartog van Geldere stayed for some time in the Dutch East Indies, from where he returned to Amsterdam on 13 June 1916. Then he lived subsequently at the Hoogte Kadijk 58, in the Nieuwe Kerkstraat 10, at Plantage Kerklaan 6 3rd stock and after his marriage on 24 June 1920 with his newly wed wife in the same lane at nr. 26 1st stock. Per the end of August 1933 at Sarphatipark 13 upper house and per 22 April 1936 at Ceintuurbaan 210 1st floor, where on 25 May 1939 also Fijtjes Parsser’s widowed mother Vrouwtje Nerden came living in. Also Emanuel Abram, the man to whom Hartog’s daughter Vrouwtje got married in July 1942, came living in at Ceintuurbaan 219 on 15 July 1942.
Hartog and Fijtje had two children, but also a stillborn son on 7 June 1928. The children who were born alive were Vrouwtje on 19 April 1921; she was born at Plantage Kerklaan 6 3rd stock and Saul, on 18 April 1931 in the same lane at nr. 26 1st floor. In 1928 Hartog van Geldere earned his money as a commercial traveller but in later years, he became a merchant and a wholesaler.
A few months later, after the daughter of Hartog and Fijtje, Vrouwtje van Geldere was married to Emanuel Abram on 15 July 1942, the other members of the Van Geldere family were arrested during the large scale round-ups of early October 1942 and carried off to Westerbork.
In that time, also the Jewish labour camps in the Northern Netherlands were liquidated by the Germans and all Jewish forced labourers were carried off to Westerbork, which caused chaotic scenes there. Registration of the barrack number where the Van Geldere family had to wait for their deportation was simply neglected then as well as other forms of camp administration.
On 26 October 1942, Hartog van Geldere, Fijtje van Geldere-Parsser and their son Saul were put on transport to Auschwitz. The transport included 841 deportees and arrived in Auschwitz on 29 October 1942. Upon arrival there, Hartog, Fijtje and Saul as well as the many other deportees were immediately murdered in the gas chambers of Auschwit-Birkenau.
Sources include the City Archive of Amsterdam, family registration cards of Saul van Geldere, Levie Parsser and Hartog van Geldere, archive cards of Hartog van Geldere and Fijtje Parsser; the Peoples Registry of Zutphen/registration Hartog van Geldere in 1909; Special Registers (Bijzondere Registers) Amsterdam/ registration Hartog van Geldere in 1912 at Nieuwe Kerkstraat 135; the file cabinet of the Jewish Council, registration cards of Hartog van Geldere and Fijtje van Geldere-Parsser and the website jodentransporten vanuit Nederland.nl.