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Sam Salomon

Sam Salomon was a classmate of Anne Frank at the Jewish Lyceum.

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  • Samuel Salomon
  • Amsterdam, Nederland Jan. 4, 1929
  • Auschwitz Sept. 14, 1942

Sam Salomon, niet gedateerd

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Samuel (Sam) Salomon was a son and only child of Henri Salomon and Heintje Blom.[1] His father was a textiles merchant.[2] In the 1930s, H. & S. Salomon, a company trading in manufactures, stockings and socks, was located at Sarphatipark 18-20. The partners Henri Salomon and (his father?) Samuël Salomon had previously traded in manufactures at the market in Westerstraat.[3] Later, they established themselves with their store at Sarphatipark.

In or about 1935, Sam spent some time in children's convalescent home Huis ter Duin in Egmond aan Zee. What was wrong with him is as yet unknown, but he came back a whole lot better. His family sent a letter thanking the director and staff for taking good care of Sam.[4]

In 1941, Sam was enrolled at the HBS secondary school at Jozef Israëlskade 45 in Amsterdam, where he was to start in the first year after the summer holidays.[5] Because Jewish students and teachers were banned from attending regular schools from 1 September 1941, he had to transfer to the Jewish Lyceum. In the schoolyear 1941-'42 he was in class 1L2, which also included Anne Frank.[6] In het diary Anne writes that Sam was one of her admirers, but characterizes him in rather unflattering terms.[7] In the story Do You Remember? she writes how he always followed her on his bicycle and wanted walk arm in arm with her.[8]

Sam, together with his parents, was deported to Westerbork on 9 September 1942, and from there to Auschwitz on 11 September,[9] where he and his mother were murdered immediately upon arrival on 14 September 1942.[10] His father ended up in Camp Seibersdorf, where he perished on 31 March 1943.[11]

Digitaal Joods Monument features a few photos of Sam Salomon and his parents.[12]

Source personal data.[1] Addresses: Sarphatipark 20-I, Amsterdam; Waalstraat 73-I.[1]

Footnotes

  1. a, b, c Stadsarchief Amsterdam, Dienst Bevolkingsregister, Archiefkaarten (toegangsnummer 30238): Archiefkaart Samuel Salomon.
  2. ^ SAA, Dienst Bevolkingsregister, Archiefkaarten (toegangsnummer 30238): Archiefkaart Henri Blom.
  3. ^ Joods Monument: Samuel Salomon; Henri Salomon,
  4. ^ Joods Historisch Museum: Brief van de familie Salomon aan de directrice van Huis ter Duin in Egmond aan Zee over hun zoon Sam Salomon, circa 1935, Objectnummer D008102.
  5. ^ SAA, Archief van de Secretarie, Afdeling Onderwijs (toegang: 5191), inv. nr. 7410: Opgave van de 4e G.H.B. met 5 j.c. B., Ingekomen lijsten van middelbare scholen met opgave van aanwezige Joodse leerlingen.
  6. ^ NIOD Instituut voor Oorlogs-, Holocaust en Genocidestudies, Amsterdam, Archief 181e (W.S.H. Elte), inv. nr. 2f: Absentenregister klas 1LII Joods Lyceum, 1 maart – 17 juli 1942; Dienke Hondius, Absent: herinneringen aan het Joods Lyceum Amsterdam 1941-1943, Amsterdam: Vassallucci, 2001, p. 270; Wikipedia: Klas van Anne Frank.
  7. ^ Anne Frank, Diary Version A, 16 June 1942, in: The Collected Works, transl. from the Dutch by Susan Massotty, London [etc.]: Bloomsbury Continuum, 2019.
  8. ^ Anne Frank, Tales and events from the Secret Annex, "Do You Remember? Memories of my schooldays at the Jewish Lyceum", in: The Collected Works.
  9. ^ Arolsen Archives - International Center on Nazi Persecution, Bad Arolsen, Joodsche Raad Cartotheek, DocID: 130367251 (Samuel SALOMON).
  10. ^ Arolsen Archives, DocID: 5152563; DocID: 5152564.
  11. ^ Arolsen Archives, DocID: 5152560.
  12. ^ Joods Monument: Samuel Salomon.
 

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