Sara Eva Bierman was a daughter of Levie Bierman and Sara Italiaander. She was born on 8 January 1911 in Amsterdam and married there on 2 September 1936 Barend Hakker, who was born in Den Haag on 9 March 1913 as a son of Joseph Hakker and Saartje Fresco. On 21 january 1937 their son Joseph was born.
The Barend Hakker family lived in Den Haag at the Hoflandplein 6 and they were victims of the first round-ups and deportations in August 1942 in Den Haag. Already on 19 August 1942 they were arrested and after they had first “handed over their house key to SS-Sturmmann Schmidt on 20 August 1942” they could be carried off to Westerbork, from where they were deported the next day, 21 August to Auschwitz.
Upon arrival at the “Rampe” in Auschwitz on 23 August 1942, Barend was separated from his wife and little son and selected for forced labour. Most likely Barend ended up in Auschwitz I but it is not known what kind of “work” he had to do. By the end of October 1942 he ended up there in Block 28, the prisoners hospital (Häftlingskrankenbau) of Auschwitz I where – according to the “Sterbebücher” – the death registers of Auschwitz - he had lost his life there on 2 November 1942.
However, upon arrival in Auschwitz on 23 August 1942, his wife Sara Eva Bierman and her little son Joseph Hakker were immediately murdered in the gas chambers.
Sources include the Municipal Archive of Den Haag/personal card of Barend Hakker; website Open Archieven.nl/Barend Hakker; website Memorial & Museum Auschwitz-Birkenau/Auschwitz Prisoners/Barend Hakker; website Stichting Erfgoed den Haag/Augustus 1942 and the file cabinet of the Jewish Council, registration cards of Barend Hakker, Sara Eva Hakker-Bierman and Joseph Hakker.