(1/8) On 23-04-1911 Simon Looper was born in Amsterdam. He had 6 years of primary education and started his working life transporting loads by bicycle. He soon got his driver's license. Over time he became the owner of a moving and forwarding company.
(2/8) In 1932 he married Roza Rijne (📷with Nathan), born 24-10-1910. At that time she was pregnant. Nathan was born on 02-09-1932. A year later, on 03-12-1933 Nathan's brother Isaac was born.
Early 1941 there were anti-Semitic fights in Amsterdam.
(3/8) Simon made one of his trucks available to the gangs formed by Jewish boys and men. The truck had been converted into a kind of 'robbery van' with which the boys could quickly be on the spot to act against the NSB (NSB was fascist party in the Netherlands).
(4/8) During the fights with the NSB one of the NSB-man (Hendrik Koot) got injured (head wound) and died 3 days later. The NSB told that his body had countless wounds. They had seen a Jew standing bent over the reclining Koot and this Jew would have licked his bloodstained lips.
(5/8) Koot's nose and ears would have been bitten off, while his death would have occurred from a larynx biting through.
These horrible lies were used as reason for the Razzia on 22 and 23-02-1941.
427 Jewish men were 'arrested' and Simon was one of them.
(6/8) He was first taken to a camp in Schoorl, then on 27-02-1941 to Buchenwald and on 22-05-1941 to Mauthausen. He was 1 of only 5 men who survived the brutal regime in the camps for almost a year.
But on 03-02-1942 those 5 men were all killed.😢
(7/8) Roza and the boys were probably deported April 1943 to #Westerbork. On 20-04-1943 they were deported to death camp #Sobibor. They arrived there on 23-04-1943 and were almost certain killed on arrival.😢
Simon, we will remember you, your wife and your lovely boys. 😢💔🕯️✡️
(8/8) More info on:
Simon Looper:
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The februari roundup:
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This card is Simon's registration card from Buchenwald and shows his posessions he had with him.
- Had
- Shoes
- Underpants
- 2 rings (without stone)
- ....
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