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Marcus came from a bakery family. His parents had five sons. His father Meijer died when Marcus was 12 years old. Two months later he left for Hoogeveen, where he worked in the butcher's shop with his mother's brother. He then worked as a baker's assistant in Meppel, fulfilled his military service and worked in The Hague, probably also in a bakery. When he was 28 he returned to Steenwijk, where his mother Ginette and her son Salomon ran a kosher bakery in Oosterstraat.

Marcus moved in with his mother. He married Jette de Leeuw. She came from the Steenwijker lineage de Leeuw, but her family ended up in Amsterdam after wandering through Friesland. Jette and Marcus took over the bakery and mother Ginette stayed with them until her death in 1924. Four children were born: Meijer Asser (Max), Asser who died young, Rosa Ginette and Ginette. In the 1930s Marcus and Jette moved to a house on the Meppelerweg, which was demolished for the construction of the roundabout. In September 1942 they left for Jette's brother in Amsterdam. In May 1943 they were arrested together with him and their sister-in-law and taken to the Hollandse Schouwburg. A day later they were transported to Westerbork and two days later to Sobibor, where they were murdered three days later. Jette was 64 and Marcus 67.

Their youngest daughter Ginette became a student nurse in 1940 in the Jewish psychiatric hospital “Het Apeldoornsche Bosch”. Her sister Rosa Ginette also worked there. The hospital was known in the area as "the heaven of the Jews," because it was thought that the patients there would be protected from the anti-Jewish measures of the occupying forces. But on the night of January 21 to 2, 1943, the patients were taken by truck to a waiting train. The nursing staff faced a terrible dilemma: do we stay with our patients or do we choose our safety? Roos chose the latter. Ginette was one of the staff members who wanted to continue caring for their patients. They went to Poland with the same train. However, they could not do anything for them because they traveled in separate wagons. Immediately after arriving in Auschwitz, Ginette, aged 22, died in the gas chamber. Her sister Roos survived at a hiding place. Her brother Max survived the war thanks to a mixed marriage.

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