Report 287 dated 15 October 1942 from the Amsterdam Police, department "Jewish Affairs".
Regarding the arrest of a NSB member from the 1e Athehstraat 46 III, whose wife was a maid with the Salomon Munnikendam family, who offered them their house as a hiding place. The man occupied himself by looting the homes of deported Jews but neighbors, who got suspicious because the many moving vans at the door, reported it to the police. When they came, the house was searched and he was arrested for hosting people in hiding but the Munnikendam family was found too, arrested as people in hiding and carried off.
Source: the City Archive of Amsterdam
The synagogue in Wattenscheid, which was initiated in 1829 and were Salomon Munnikendam and Trude Roth had their chupah. During the "Kristallnacht" on 9 November 1938, the synagogue had gone up in flames.
Source: website Aus der Geschichte der jüdischen Gemeinden im deutschen Sprachraum.
Salomon Munnikendam was a son of Abraham Munnikendam and Mathilde Rueff. His father Abraham Munnikendan was born in Amsterdam on 2 March 1875 and passed away there already on 27 January 1924. His wife Mathilde Rueff wa born on 28 June 1876 in the southern part of the Alsace, in Blotzheim near Basel.…
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Salomon, always named Sal, was a warehouse clerk at Gerzon’s Fashion Store. When his mother Mathilde Rueff passed away in March 1925, he was only 18 years old. He then came at home living with Salomon Dekker and aunt Celien Rueff at Oude Zijds Achterburgwal. But when aunt Celien was hospitalized in …