Salomon Jonas Heiman Frankenhuis was married to his cousin Johanna Falkenstein. They had five children: two sons (Jonas and Jacob) and three daughters (Julia, Henriëtte - known as Jetje - and Betsie). The family lived in Haaksbergen, where Salomon and his brother Jacob Frankenhuis ran a butcher shop on the Blankenburgerstraat. In 1927 the house had been converted to a combined butcher shop and residence, where the family lived as well. Salomon's brother Jacob Frankenhuis and the mother of Salomon and Jacob, Jette Frankenhuis-Falkenstein, lived with them as well.
During the Nazi occupation Salomon Jonas Heiman Frankenhuis was put to work at Camp Overbroek near Kesteren, which was a Jewish labour camp. On 2 October 1942 he was sent to Westerbork. At the same time, his family was fetched from home and brought to the station in Enschede in two taxicabs. They were taken to Westerbork the next day.
At the start of the occupation Betsie and Jacob's children attended the Openbare Lagere School, which was the local village school, in Haaksbergen. From 8 October 1941 they were forced to transfer to a special Jewish school in Enschede situated on the premises of the former Westerschool on the G.J. van Heekstraat. Jacob attended the Jewish secondary modern.
After the war a small statue was placed in memory of the children at the entrance to the village school in Haaksbergen with a plaque that reads: 'You were torn away like an autumn leaf, vulnerable, defenceless, at the mercy of the storm of destruction. You missed the chance to blossom in spring'.
R. Geritz-Koster and L. Karseboom, Dorp in de mediene. De geschiedenis van de joodse gemeenschap in Haaksbergen (Zutphen 1999) 39, 149-151;
H. Hamburger and J.C. Regtien, Joodse oorlogsmonumenten in de provincie Overijssel, alsmede algemene oorlogsmonumenten waarop joodse namen voorkomen. Profiel (Bedum 2002) 35
In addition, a Jokos file (number 13171) on this family is at the Amsterdam Municipal Archive. Access is subject to authorization from the Stichting Joods Maatschappelijk Werk.