Carolina van der Giessen, daughter of Samuel van der Giessen and Elisabeth Jacob, married 29 November 1905 in Dordrecht Hartog den Hartog, one of the seven children of Simon den Hartog and Steintje den Hartog from Heerjansdam. Carolina and Hartog themselves had one daughter, Elisabeth Steintje, born in Breda in 1906.
Her husband Hartog, a vendor by trade and who passed in his former residence Utrecht on 25 November 1926, had one sister Marianna, who has survived the war. His sister Sara died in 1942 in Rotterdam but his siblings Anna, Henriette, Abraham and Elias were killed in the Shoah.
After the death of her husband, Carolina moved from Utrecht to Amsterdam where she lived per 31 July 1928 at Vechtstraat 75 II. On 28 July 1936 she moved to the address Sarphatistraat 90 III, where in 1938 also her son-in-law Abraham Frank and his wife, as a just-married-couple, came living in and where Carolina’s grandchildren were born. Presumably in 1941 they all had to move to Muiderschans 90 III, which was also the last known address of Carolina den Hartog and de Abraham Frank family.
According her registration card of the Jewish Council, she was registered in Camp Westerbork on 23 march 1943 and had to stay in barack 85. She was deported on 13 April to Sobibor where she was killed immediately upon arrival there on 16 April 1943.
Website www.wiewaswie.nl, marriage of Carolina van der Giessen to Hartog den Hartog; The Archive of Utrecht, certificate of deat of Hartog den Hartog nr. 1581 of 26-11-1926; City Archive of Amsterdam, archive cards of Carolina van der Giessen and Abraham Frank and the file cabinet of the Jewish Council, rgistration card of Carolina den Hartog-van der Giessen.