About Eva van Rood

Eva van Rood, descendent of Benjamin van Rood and Sientje van Spier

By: Redactie Joods Monument

Benjamin van Rood, born in 1838, married Sientje van Spier in Hilversum on 21 June 1865. She was born in 1836. This couple had eleven children in total, of whom five have died as babies – none of them became older than 1 year.
Of the children, who reached adulthood, Kaatje, Neeltje, Eva, Mathilda and Susanna van Rood were killed in the Shoah. Only Mietje has survived the Holocaust.

Eva van Rood married Philip Peper on 13 October 1896 in Hilversum, a street photographer in the Vondelpark in Amsterdam, a son of Jacob Peper and Maria Mok. As far as known, this couple had only one son, Jacob Philip Peper, also known as Jacques, who later became a chemist.

Eva Rood and her husband Philip Peper lived at the then named municipality of Nieuwer Amstel but moved 17 May 1932 to Sluisstraat 46 in Amsterdam, where they lived till they were sent to Camp Westerbork on 1 September 1942, registered there and already deported to Auschwitz, where they both were killed immediately upon arrival there on 7 September 1942.

Sources among others: City Archive of Amsterdam, archive cards of Eva van Rood and Philip Peper; website www.wiewaswie.nl; the file cabinet of the Jewish Council, registration cards of the Van Rood families and an addition of a visitor of the website.