Samuel Morpurgo, born in 1910, was a son of Aäron Morpurgo and Sippora Sealtiel. His mother passed away in 1938 and his father married in 1939 Sippora’s sister Schoontje Sealtiel. From his father’s first marriage, another sister was born in 1928, Judith, who was killed in Auschwitz during the Shoah.
Samuel married 2 February 1933 in Amsterdam Keetje van Loggem, a daughter of Emanuel van Loggem and Sippora Metzelaar. On 18 July 1934 their daughter Sophia was born. She passed away however in Amsterdam on 18 November 1942 and she was interred in the Portuguese Israëlitic Cemetery Beth Haim.
After their wedding, Samuel and Keetje lived at 2nd Boomstraat 17 ground floor, but they moved per 18 August 1939 to Pretoriusstraat 56 ground floor in the Transvaal district in Amsterdam-East. On 20 June 1943 however, Amsterdam South and the Transvaal district were hermetically barricaded by the German occupiers, in order to carry out there a secretly prepared raid, in which a total of about 5500 Jews were arrested and carried off to Westerbork.
It was true that Samuel Morpurgo’s wife, Keetje van Loggem, was exempted from deportation “because of her spouse”; she assisted her husband on the street market. Since 8 November 1937 they both had a vendor permit and they sold piece goods and mercery at the street market at Westerstraat in Amsterdam.
Most likely Samuel Morpurgo was carried off that 20th of June 1943 to Westerbork, together with his wife Keetje. They were enclosed in barrack 60 till 29 June when both were put on transport to Sobibor. On arrival there on 2 July 1943 Samuel and Keetje were immediately killed.
Sources among others: City Archive of Amsterdam, archive cards of Samuel Morpurgo, Keetje van Loggem, Sophia Morpurgo and Judith Morpurgo; website niod.nl regardint the raid of 20 June 1943; website Akevoth/Portuguese Israëlitic Cemetery Beth Haim, grave of Sophia Morpurgo and the file cabinet of the Jewish Council, registration card of Keetje Morpurgo-van Loggem, (no registration card of Samuel Morpurgo in the file cabinet available) and an addition of a visitor of the website.