The 20-year-old Simon Frankfort, son of Jacob Frankfort and Rebecca Vogel, married on 4 July 1928 the 19-year-old Lena van Kreeveld, a daughter of Isaac van Kreeveld and Rebecca Schelvis. The couple had three children: Rebecca, Hendrik and Richard. However, the marriage did not last and was dissolved on 10 June 1937 in Amsterdam. The children then continued to live with their mother. They lived in Hofmeijrstraat until June 1938, then in Retiefstraat, at Rapenburg and Nieuwe Achtergracht in Amsterdam.
After his divorce in June 1937, Simon Frankfort moved on 17 August 1937 from Rapenburgerstraat 89 3rd floor to Reitzstraat 17, moved in November 1938 to Rapenburgerstraat 75 3rd stock, in August 1939 to President Brandtstraat 20 1st floor and in July 1940 he moved into living quarters at the Nieuwe Prinsengracht 60 1st floor. He made his living as a merchant in various goods.
On 25 March 1943, Simon was arrested and sent to Vught concentration camp, where he had to stay for about 8 months. From 6 September 1943 he was put to work there as a rubber patcher for raincoats. It is not known what he had to do there before or whether he may have labored in an outside command of Vught. On 15 November 1943 he was deported to Auschwitz in a direct transport from Vught to Auschwitz, a transport of 1149 deportees.
The investigations of the Dutch Red Cross from 1953 has established that of the "autumn transport" of 15 November 1943, that after about 6 weeks of "quarantine" and subsequent various selections, the remaining men were divided among the coal mines of Janina, Jawischowitz and Fürstengrube and various labor commands at Auschwitz-Birkenau. Also, after the "quarantine" and the selections, very few remaining women were also put to work in Auschwitz-Birkenau.
It was also established that, as far as men are concerned, all men belonging to the transport of 15 November 1943, who had reached the age of 18 on the day after their arrival at Auschwitz (i.e. on 18 November 1943), but not yet were 46 years of age, unless individually known otherwise, presumed to have died in or in the vicinity of Auschwitz-Birkenau, or in the mining area of Jawischowitz and Fürstengrube, no earlier than 1 January 1944 and no later than 31 March 1944. All other up to the men who belonged to the transport on 15 November 1943 are, unless otherwise known individually, presumed to have died in Auschwitz-Birkenau, no earlier than 1 January 1944 and no later than 31 January 1944.
As far as the women and children are concerned, it must be concluded that all women and children belonging to the transport of 15-11-1943, unless individually known otherwise, are deemed to have died in Auschwitz-Birkenau no earlier than 1 January 1944 and at the latest 31 January 1944. (due to typhus, dysentery and other illnesses. However, the exact date in January on which the children, and the women who had children with them, were selected for the gas chambers cannot be determined).
However, after the war, the Dutch authorities determined, partly on the basis of research by the Red Cross and testimonies from survivors, that Simon Frankfurt must have been alive in 1944 and still even in the first weeks of 1945. On this basis, it was determined individually for Simon Frankfurt that he died on 21 January 1945 in the vicinity of Auschwitz-Birkenau, after which the municipality of Amsterdam was commissioned to draw up a death certificate for him accordingly.
Bronnen include the City Archive of Amsterdam, family registration card of Simon Frankfort and of Lena van Kreeveld, archive of Simon Frankfort and Lena van Kreeveld; Amsterdam residence card of Nieuwe Prinsengracht 60 1st floor; the file cabinet of the Jewsh Council, registration card of Simon Frankfort; website ITS Arolson/camp card Vught Simon Frankfort; Publication by the Dutch Red Cross in 1953/”Auschwitz III/Deportation transports 1943; ITS Arolson/victim list concentration cams with Simon Frankfort 21-01-1945 vicinity of Auschwitz; death certificate made out in Amsterdam on 22 February 1952 no. 436 from the A-register 94-folio 74verso.