Salomon Joseph Vromen, born 6 December 1895 in Lochem as son of Sander Vromen and Josephina Cohen, married in Den Helder on 1 April 1924 Mietje Kannewasser, a daughter of Salomon Aron Kannewasser and Jansje Leon Beek. She was born in Den Helder on 10 September 1893 where she was working as shop lady.
Mietje Kannewasser left Den Helder for Amsterdam on 30 May 1913 and arrived at the address Nieuwe Prinsengracht 96 3rd floor, where she lived in with the family of Samuel van der Velde. She was registered in Amsterdam as fashion hat maker. On 12 April 1915 she moved to Westerstraat 86, where she came living in with Salomon Heijlbron. A few years earlier, also her brother Meijer Salomon has lived in there too. On 11 April 1916 Mietje left Amsterdam and moved to the address Klein Schavernek 2 in Leeuwarden, where she was registered as shop lady. On 20 December 1918 she left Leeuwarden for Den Helder again.
After Salomon Joseph Vromen was married to Mietje Kannewasser in Den Helder in 1924, the young couple settled in Lochem. There in 1925 their daughter Jansje Josephina was born and in 1928 their son Sander. They lived at Bierstraat 2 and Salomon Joseph earned his living as shop keeper in mercery, just as his father Sander Vromen.
On 2 November 1942 the Vromen family was put on transport from Westerbork to Auschwitz. This transport, with in total 954 deportees, made a stop in Kozel, located ±80 km west from Auschwitz. There, 260 boys and men between 15 and 50 years of age were forced to leave the train, to be deployed as forced labourers in the surrounding satellite camps of Auschwitz. It is very likely that also Salomon Joseph Vromen, then 47 years of age, belonged to this group of 260 men; eventually he lost his life somewhere in Mid Europe on 31 March 1943.
Those, who remained in the train, were transported onwards to Auschwitz and arrived there on 5 November 1942 and Mietje Vromen-Kannewasser and her children Jansje and Sander Vromen were immediately killed on arrival there in the gaschambers of Auschwitz.
Sources includes the City Archive of Amsterdam, copies volumes/closed family registrations 1892-1920/Mietje Kannewasser; website allefriezen.nl/registration Leeuwarden Mietje Kannewasser; Amsterdam residence cards of Westerstraat and Groenburgwas; Region Archive of Zutphen/peoples registry Lochem/Vromen-Kannewasser; Wikipedia list of jodentransporten vanuit Nederland; the file cabinet of the Jewish Council, registration cards of Salomon Joseph Vromen, Mietje Vromen-Kannewasser and Jansje and Sander Vromen and genealogical information from a visitor of the website.