Salomon Vogel, a son of Isaäc Vogel and Trijntje Lubig, was born in Amsterdam on 11 February 1883. He was a peddler by trade. On 26 June 1913 he married Sara Roodveldt, who was born in Amsterdam on 19 April 1889 as the daughter of Jesaia Roodvelt x Leentje Wittenburg.
After the marriage, the couple went to live at Lange Houtstraat 50, moved to house no. 38 in 1928 and on 1 May 1931 they came to live at Blauwe Distelweg 70 in Asterdorp in Amsterdam-North, a municipal housing project “to educate anti-social families to better live”. After 7 years they moved into a house at Rapenburg 16 1st floor and in July 1941 they came to their last address: Muiderstraat 11 II in Amsterdam.
Salomon and Sara had a total of 10 children, viz. Isaac in October 1913, Leentje in 1915, Joseph in 1916, Jacques in 1918, Mozes in 1921, Trijntje in 1923, Abraham in 1925, Anna in 1927, Jansje in 1929 and finally Aaltje, who was born in June 1934. Aaltje, however died on 15 March 1935, only 8 months old. Of the other children, only Leentje (in 1941) and Trijntje (in 1942) were married.
On 8 June 1941, Leentje became the second wife of Hijman de Swarte and had three children with him: viz. Salomon in 1935, Max in 1941 and Anna in 1943. Salomon was actually a child of Leentje Vogel. The biological father was Hijman de Swarte, who had already divorced Louise van Dal in 1930. Leentje Vogel, her husband Hijman de Swarte and their three children were murdered on 11 June 1943 in Sobibor, after they had been registered in Westerbork on 6 April 1943 and were deported on 8 June 1943. On 25 June 1942
Trijntje married the son of Manuel van Gelderen and Duifje Polak: Abraham van Gelderen. Trijntje worked as a maid and Abraham was a warehouse clerk. A month after their marriage, they were called up for transport to Auschwitz, which followed on 31 July 1942, where they were put to work. It is not known when Trijntje died there, so after the war it was established that she died on 30 September 1942 in Auschwitz. This also applied to Abraham van Gelderen, but it appeared from the so-called Sterbebücher (death index) of Auschwitz that he died there later: on 7 October 1942.
True enough that at different times the other members of Salomon Vogel's family were also called up and deported to Auschwitz. In the end, none of this family survived the Shoah.
Salomon Vogel himself, his wife Sara Roodveldt and two of their youngest daughters, 15-year-old Anna and 13-year-old Jansje Vogel, were deported to Westerbork on 17 September 1942 and deported to Auschwitz the next day, 18 September. Upon arrival there on 21 September 1942, they were immediately murdered in the gas chambers of Auschwitz-Birkenau.
Isaac Vogel, born on 2 October 1913, reported without being called up in the spring of 1942 in one of the Jewish labor camps. He then voluntarily reported for the so-called “Arbeitseinsatz” (the provision of additional work in Germany under police surveilance) to which he joined on 3 August in Westerbork. There he was “set back from deportation” by the Jewish Council because of his military past (note of “MIL” on his Jewish Council registration card). Isaac was then deported to Auschwitz on 17 August 1942, where he received prisoner number 59987. However, he was soon admitted to the prisoners' hospital in Block 20, where patients with infectious diseases were killed by lethal injections of phenol. It must be assumed that Isaac Vogel fell victim to such a "treatment" on 21 September 1942 and was killed with a phenol injection because of an "infectious disease".
The unmarried brothers Abraham, Mozes and Jacques Vogel all received a summons to report to Westerbork for the deportation transport of 23 July 1942 to Auschwitz. They received a temporary postponement of deportation, which was granted to them by the Jewish Council on various dates: Abraham on 24 July , Jacques on 25 July and Moses on 27 July. If a postponement was granted, a new ticket also had to be issued. The brothers therefore received a “B.N.H.” (Biljet Naar Hooghalen = a ticket to Hooghalen), and all three were eventually deported to Auschwitz on 31 July 1942, where they were put to work after arrival, but it is unknown where and when they lost their lives there. After the war, the Dutch authorities established that Abraham Vogel, Mozes Vogel and Jacques Vogel have died on 30 September 1942 in Auschwitz.
Then there was the 25-year-old metalworker Joseph Vogel, who was born on 13 December 1916. Joseph was also called up on 24 July 1942 for transport to Auschwitz, but his departure to Westerbork was postponed several times. He had to report there finally on 4 August, for which purpose he was issued a ticket to Hooghalen (B.N.H.) due to the previous postponements of transport to Westerbork. Joseph was deported to Auschwitz on 7 August 1942, where he was given the prisoner number 57669 and was put to work; where, however, is unknown. Joseph, like his brother Isaac, also ended up in the prisoner's hospital in Block 20, where prisoners were killed by lethal phenol injections. It is not unlikely that Joseph Vogel was also murdered by phenol there on 15 November 1942.
Sources include the City Archive of Amsterdam, archive cards of Salomon Vogel, Sara Roodveld tand their children Isaac, Leentje, Joseph, Jacques, Mozes, Trijntje, Abraham, Anna and Jansje Vogel; residence card of Amsterdam Lange Houtstraat 38 with reference to Asterdorp; the file cabinet of the Jewish Council, registration cards of the mentioned persons; info by Raymund Schütz regarding BNH and set-backs from deportation; certifcates of death from the A-registers of Amsterdam Civil Registry; website Museum & Memorial Auschwitz-Birkenau/Auschwitz Prisoners – different perons named Vogel and the Wikipedia website Jodentransporten vanuit Nederland.nl.