Biography

About Reintje Hartogs-Soesman

Reintje Soesman was a daughter of Wolf Soesman and Judik Sterner. She married 26 December 1916 in Zwartewaal to the 46-year olf widower of Sara Spanjer, Iesidor Samuel Hartogs from Middelharnis, a son of David Hartogs and Wilhelmina Catz. Reintjes spouse however passed away on 18 March 1926 in Rotterdam, 56 years old.

Reintje Hartogs-Soesman was deported at 11 May 1943 toSobibor where she has been killed immediately upon arrival there on 14 May 1943 .

City Archive of Rotterdam, family registration card of Iesidor Samuel Hartogs; website www.wiewaswie.nl; Het Utrechts Archief, certificate of death of Reintje Hartogs-Soesman dated 2 November 1948 and the transport list from the book by Jules Schelvis "Extermination Camp Sobibor".


This person is commemorated on a memorial in Zeist. More information on this memorial can be found (in Dutch) on the website of the Nationaal Comité 4 en 5 mei.