Salomon Meijer, cattle trader and room renter, was a son of Abraham Meijer and Bethje Spier. 2 November 1920 he married in Zutphen Saartje Philips, a daughter of Izak Philips and Eva Wijel. In 1921 their daughter Eva was born but just as her parents, she has been killed in the Shoah.
After their marriage, Saartje and Salomon had a delicatessen shop in Enschede, but moved later to Den Haag (it is not known when that was). There they rented rooms in a three-storey building at Van Alkemadelaan 43. A JOKOS list shows that all these rooms were extensively furnished. An ad in the Joodsche Weekblad of 26 December 1941 reveals that at that time Salomon Meijer’s pension was still running well because one was looking for a household aid.
The registration cards of the Jewish Council does not make clear what happened to the Meijer family: Salomon Meijer was registered 10 September 1942 and together with his wife and daughter Eva put on transport to Auschwitz already on 11 September. Saartje Meijer-Philips and her daughter Eva were killed immediately upon arrival there on 14 September 1942.
The date of transport of 11 September 1942, by which Salomon Meijer, his wife and daughter were deported to Auschwitz, falls in the period known as the so-called Cosel-period as a number of transports with deported Jews, also from Belgium and France, stopped at the Cosel railway station, 80 km west from Auschwitz, were men were forced to step out the trains of whom the Germans had the impression that they were suitable to work in the surrounding labor camps. Those, who remained in the train were sent to Auschwitz. It is therefore possible that Salomon Meijer – then 49 years of age – has been taken from the transport of 11 September 1942 to do hard labor somewhere in the surrounding camps. He had to endure more than six months of hardships before he was killed somewhere in Mid Europe 31 March 1943.
Source: Municipal Archive of Den Haag, death certificate 1953, C-109 of Salomon Meijer; the file cabinet of the Jewish Council, registration cards of Salomon Meijer, Saartje Meijer Philips and Eva Meijer; website www.wiewaswie.nl, marriage of Salomon Meijer; website https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kozle and parts of additions of a visitor of the website.