Alex Joseph Hartogensis was a son of Joseph Hartogensis and Margot Jacobs. He was born in Den Haag on 8 Novembe 1897 and earned his money as commercial traveller in coal. On 27 May 1925 he married Marie Anna van Minden in Den Haag, who was born on 29 January 1901 in Haarlem as a daughter of Julius Jacob van Minden and Emilie Oppenheimer. The couple had no children.
Marie Anna’s parents were married in Nijmegen in 1899. Those days, Julius Jacob van Minden was a mechanic by profession; in March 1912 he arrived from Wilmersdorf (Germany) in Rotterdam and in November 1912 in Den Haag. Emilie Oppenheimer arrived a few weeks later in November from Berlin into Den Haag and the Van Minden family lived at Slingerlandstraat 407.
Alex Joseph Hartogensis’ parents were married in Zwolle in 1895. Those days Joseph Hartogensis was a dealer in metals and with his wife he lived already in Den Haag, where Joseph and another two children were born. Up from April 1925 Alex Joseph Hartogensis lived in the Scheepsmakerstraat 12 in Den Haag and after being married, his wife Maria Anna joined him there.
On 21 February 1937, Alex Joseph and Marie Anna moved to Zeestraat 73 in Den Haag, the address where they still resided during the mandatory registration of all the Jews in the Netherlands in 1941.
From notes made on both their registration cards of the Jewish Council, it appears that they were carried off to Westerbork on 17 December 1943, after being arrested. In Westerbork they were housed in barrack 81, then used as hospital barrack. On 8 February 1944 Alex Joseph Hartogensis and his wife Marie Anna Hartigensis-van Minden were deported to Auschwitz as a so-called “penal case”.
This suggests, that they have made attempts to go into hiding, which failed, due to perhaps treason and their arrest. Whether they have made attempts to escape deportation during the period between 17 December 1943 and 8 February 1944 is unknown. Of such attempts no notes were found on their registration cards, except for the note of the CA (Contact Department) of the Jewish Council of 22 February 1944, “that further steps had no use”.
Already on 8 February 1944 were both deported to Auschwitz as a “penal case” in a transport of in total 1015 victims and upon arrival there on 11 February 1944, they were immediately muderdered in the gas chambers of Auschwit-Birkenau.
Sources include the Municipal Archive of Den Haag, family registration cards of Alex Joseph Hartogensis and of Julius Juda van Minden; website open archieven.nl/Hartogensis and Van Minden and the wedding certificate of Hartogensis x Van Minden; the file cabinet of the Jewish Council, registration cards of Alex Joseph Hartogensis and Marie Anna Hartogensis-van Minden and the wikipedia website jodentransporten vanuit Nederland.nl.