Klara Brandon was the second youngest of the six children of Isaak Jacob Brandon and Rosa Groenewout. She was born on 10 May 1880 at Nieuwe Kerkstraat 23 in Amsterdam, remained unmarried and worked as a servant maid for various families.
After her birth, she lived with her parents, brothers and sisters at four different addresses in Amsterdam until 23 May 1898. Then the 18-year old Klara left for Hilversum, where she stayed for 3 months at Zeedijk 28 with Jacob Mok, who had married her sister Mietje Brandon in June 1897. On 30 August 1898, Klara returned to her parental home at Lange Houtstraat 26 in Amsterdam, but not for long: her father Isaac Jacob Brandon died there on 15 March 1899. He was interred 2 days later at the Jewish Cemetery in Muiderberg.
After the death of her father, Klara left again on 15 July 1899, now with her mother Rosa Groenewout, to join Jacob Mok's family in Hilversum, where her mother remained until mid-January 1902. When Klara's mother returned to Amsterdam, she stayed at Zwanenburgerstraat 21 2nd floor. From the beginning of February 1903, Rosa moved to Houtkopersburgwal 10 where she lived in with Mozes Mug, who was married to her daughter Jetje. Rosa Groenewout stayed there until she died on 24 April 1929 and was also buried in Muiderberg.
In 1905, from 21 July to 23 November, Klara again stayed with her sister Jetje and brother-in-law Mozes Mug, who then lived at Houtkopersburgwal 13. Between 1903 and 1905 Klara was in Antwerp, where she stayed with her sister Mietje, who was married to Jacob Mok. In the period that followed until mid-December 1916, Klara worked as a servant maid for various Amsterdam families (including the Klisser, Kater, Van West, Maarssen and Elias families) and came to live in again with Mozes Mug, who lived during that period. at Blasiusstraat 120 and 89 and at Retiefstraat 28.
Klara remained there until she left at the end of May 1927 to live with her sister Elisabeth Brandon, who had married Jechiël Ritmeester in 1913. At the end of May 1927 they lived at Halmaheirastraat 75 3rd floor, in the following years they moved to Oude Schans 50 2nd level, Zandstraat 27 1st floor and after the death of her husband Jechiël on 16 March 1933, Elisabeth Brandon eventually moved with three of her children per 21 February 1938 to the Lepelstraat 2nd floor, and all those times, Klara moved with them. Lepelstraat 2 2nd level in Amsterdam was also Klara's last known address in the Netherlands.
Klara was arrested on 10 February 1943 and taken to the Vught concentration camp. However, 10 days later she was already sent on from Vught to Westerbork on the 20th. From there she was deported to Auschwitz on 23 February 1943, with 1100 other victims. Upon arrival there on 26 February 1943, the 62-year-old Klara Brandon was immediately murdered in the gas chambers of Auschwitz Birkenau.
Sources include the Amsterdam City Archives, birth certificate Klara Brandon/year 1880 register 4-folio 127verso; closed and finished family registration cards/Isaak Jacob Brandon, with Klara Brandon; family registration cards Jechiël Ritmeester, Mozes Mug and Klara Brandon; archive card Klara Brandon; Amsterdam Population Registers; Amsterdam residence cards; the file cabinet of the Jewish Council, registration cards of Klara Brandon; website ITS Arolson/camp card Vught Klara Brandon; Wikipedia website Transports of Jews from Nederland.nl/23 February 1943.