Barend Italiaander, born in Amsterdam in 1912, was trained in the diamond trade and later worked as a window dresser, decorator and sign writer. In 1938 he married Schoontje Peper, born in Amsterdam in 1907, who was an office clerk. Their son Rudolf Abraham was born in Amsterdam on 27 February 1939. At the end of August 1939 the family moved to Cremerplein 33 in Haarlem, where their daughter Nora was born on 26 September 1940. When Jews were no longer allowed to work, the Jewish Council found Barend a job as assistant porter at the Joles Hospital.
On 23 December 1942 the family was ordered to move to Kamperstraat 6. In February 1943 all Jews of Haarlem had to leave for Amsterdam. The family arrived in Westerbork on 25 May 1943 and was deported to Sobibor on 1 June. They were murdered there on 4 June 1943. Barend was 31, Schoontje 36, Rudolf 4 and Nora 2.
