Biography

About Rijntje IJer

Rijntje IJer, shop assistant, was a daughter of Abraham IJer and Kaatje Stad. The 1st of May 1929 she married in Rotterdam the roman catholic Leonardus Stephanus Verheem, a son of Stephanus Johannes Verheem and Johanna Francisca Vijftigschild. As far as has been researched, this couple had no children.

After her marriage, Rijntje and her husband left Rotterdam for Den Haag, where they resided till 1938. Per 13 April 1938 the moved back to Rotterdam to the address Schietbaanlaan 39a. 

17 September 1942, Rijntje was deported to Camp Westerbork and the next day, 18 September put on transport to Auschwitz, where she was killed immediately upon arrival there 21 September 1942.

Rijntjes spouse remarried after the war Jacoba Gerarda Johannessen, lived again in Den Haag, where he passed 2 May 1954.

City Archive of Rotterdam, family registration card of Rijntje IJer; website www.wiewaswie.nl, marriage of IJer/Verheem;  Municipal Archive of Den Haag, family registration card of Leonardus St. Verheem and his certificate of death D 939 dated 4 May 1954 and the file cabinet of the Jewish Council, registration card of Rijntje Verheem-IJer.

 

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