Willem Agstteribbe, usually known as Wim, was a son of Liepman Agstteribbe and Sara Schaap. He married Vogelina Snijders in Amsterdam on 30 April 1924, who was known as Lien, a daughter of Joseph Snijders and Klaartje Bosboom. The couple had two children: Selma in 1927 and Leo in 1934.
Willem was a commercial traveler in fancy goods and worked for Messrs Diorgenta at Vondelstraat 11 in Amsterdam, a wholesaler of gold and silver works. In addition, Willem was a good amateur magician, who has graced many parties with his arts.
After his marriage in 1924, Willem and his wife lived at Waverstraat 75 2nd floor but moved to Tilanusstraat 38 on 3 September 1926, where both their children were born. On 27 February 1938, the family moved into a home at Kinderdijkstraat 62, which became also their last known address in Amsterdam.
The Agstteribbe family was taken to Westerbork on 5 September 1942 and registered there. Two days later, on September 7, Wim, Lien and the children Selma and Leo were deported to Auschwitz.
The transport of 7 September 1942 with a total of 930 deportees stopped in Kozel, located about 80 km west of Auschwitz. There, 110 boys and men between 15 and 50 years were forced to leave the train and subsequently be forced to work as forced laborers in the surrounding satellite camps of Auschwitz. Those who remained on the train were onwards transported to Auschwitz to be killed there. Similarly his wife Vogelina (Lien) Snijders and his children Selma and Leo; they were immediatelykilled on arrival in Auschwitz on 10 September 1942.
Willem Agstteribbe also belonged to that group who had to leave the train in Kozel and he ended up in "Seibersdorf". Eventually he succumbed to the hardships in the area of Seibersdorf and after the war a death certificate was drawn up for him in which the place and date of his death were established as in Seibersdorf on 31 March 1943.
Sources include the Amsterdam City Archives, Willem Agstteribbe family card, Willem Agstteribbe and Vogelina Snijders residence cards for Tilanusstraat 38 and Vondelstraat 11; website wikipedia /Jewish transports from the Netherlands; the file cabinet of the Jewish Council, registration cards of Willem Agstteribbe, Vogelina Agstteribbe-Snijders and Selma Agstteribbe. (no Jewish Council card of Leo Agstteribbe present in the cartotheek) and the death certificate for Willem Agstteribbe, nr. 587 in register A89, folio 99v dated 6 Dec. 1951, made out in the Community of Amsterdam.