Blasiusstraat 93-103

Amsterdam, Blasiusstraat 101 on September 3, 2024
It took a while ...
But we are now together where in 1943 the house of Gerrit and Marianne Sluijter was still. Our parents, in -laws, grandparents and even great -grandparents.
Sophia and Betty Sluijter also lived here. Betty and Jody were even born here. Jody has hardly been here because he had just been born and was in the children's hospital for a long time.
Gerrit Sluijter was born on November 15, 1905 and Marianne Sax on August 31, 1907 They married on November 26, 1930 and had 5 children:
Levie born on March 9, 1932
Sofia, Fietje on December 21, 1934
Leentje on November 10, 1936
Betty on August 17, 1939
Joachim, Jody born on October 21, 1941
Besides Betty and Jody, the others are strangers to me. For Jody too, he has been working since his late puberty to collect information and to get a picture of the family he came from. That collection is now in folders in his bookcase. I could gratefully use that, because how beautiful it is to tell their story here.
I can say little about their character, emotions, worries or doubts, but while reading through the folders, I could imagine a lot and sometimes questions came to me.
If I tell something that is not right, then that is especially up to me. I misunderstood whether (and that is more likely) my imagination went with me.
I found copies of birth messages in the newspaper of almost all children. That says, as far as I'm concerned, how happy Gerrit and Marianne were with the birth of their children.
Levie and Leentje died very young, before the war.
Fietje, Betty and Jody experienced the war. Betty and Jody survived the war.
Unfortunately Betty died 2 ½ years ago at the age of 82.
She would have liked to have been there today and I think she is watching from above. It is therefore all the finer that Ilana, Max and Frist can be here.
Jody is still happy there. He can be there today. You wanted that too ...
What I found out in all those folders, reading it, that the Sluijter and Sax families were not a pious Jews, it emerges from the stories that they did not really actively participate in the Jewish congregation. But ... they celebrated heyday like Brit Mila and, for example, a Hupa. And you preferred to get married with a Jew or Jodin, but we know that two sisters from Gerrit got married to a non -Jew, that then caused a lot of dust to blow ...
I can therefore imagine that the outbreak of the war, suddenly made them realize that they were "more Jewish" than they thought.
Gerrit and Marianne had little to make ends meet. Partly because of this they moved a lot. Often once a year and sometimes even twice a year; They lived in Amsterdam and a 3 -year periods also in Den Helder, where a bicycle was born - and then returned to their own Amsterdam, from which they were eventually deported in 1943.
Why did they move so much?
Was that because they had debts and had to leave?
Or because they rented upholstered and the things were worn out? I do know that at that time it was customary to move a lot if you were poor, the first year had to be. you don't pay rent yet. Then you made sure that you moved before the rent had to be paid.
Back in Amsterdam they first lived in the Lepelstraat and their last address was the Blasiusstraat, first at no. 126 I and later at number 101 II, where we are now today.
I read that Gerrit Klein was (we see that in our family now), but that did not stop him, or that is precisely why he was boxing at an association in the Albert Cuijpstraat.
He had an Amsterdam fruit trade at the time they lived in Den Helder. So a trader, but not a very successful one, because he was not always able to buy fruit. Then he borrowed money again, causing him to get into trouble.
... would he have been on boxing? .. To defend himself? I can imagine that fighting for some money debts sometimes occurred.
They had to make up for little and needed social support. Now you would call that a benefit.
That made Marianne economical, she also came from a poor family, so she knew how to make up with few resources.
She was creative and was able to sew very well, that was her hobby. She worked at the Hollandia Kattenburg factory until her marriage. That was the largest factory in Europe for rain gear.
Once argued Marianne, Gerrit helped with the trade. She also sewed clothes for her children, with - as it went - so much so that you could do it longer. Even when the war had been advanced for a long time and many Jews had already been arrested, she sewed dresses with big hems.
Do she thought - like many others - that the nasty consequences of that war would not happen to her own family?
Eventually when the raids got close, they went into hiding, but Gerrit was betrayed and taken away on April 3, 1943. Marianne felt lost. She missed him. Betty and Fietje were already in hiding at other addresses. Only Jody was still in the Jewish Children's Hospital. Marianne went to pick up Jody from the hospital and has issued him on the street in a stranger to indicate opportunities and warnings from others to the Germans. She could still go into hiding, but didn't want to. She wanted to go to Gerrit.
Was she naive?
Did she love that man so much?
Did she think she could pick him up or save him?
How the hell do you leave 3 children? We will never know ...
Marianne traveled alone, there were no family members on the transport list.
On her journey on arrival of the transport on 17 May 1943 in Westerbork, she had at least 14 guilders with her, I can imagine that this was all her savings. It didn't help her, because a day later, on May 18, she was deported to Sobibor, where she was murdered on May 21. She was only 35 years old.
The sad thing of all this is that she went to her husband who, on her departure from Amsterdam, had been murdered more than a month earlier. Because after Gerrit was arrested, he was deported via Westerbork, to Sobibor where he was murdered on April 9, 1943. He was 37 years old.

And then the children?
Sofia Sluijter went into hiding under the pseudonym Mientje de Roode in the Stroo family in Koog aan de Zaan, who had a houseboat. By betrayal, she was also arrested on March 10, 1944 with her hiding Giver Jacob Stroo. After she was taken to the Vught camp, she was forwarded to Westerbork under the name Mientje de Roo. On April 8, 1944, a year before the liberation, she died in Auschwitz.
Imagine ... such a young girl, only ... because Jacob Stroo was not with her, but was in prison because he helped people in hiding. What should she have felt desperate, lonely and sad that month. A girl of 9 years ... Only ...
Jacob turned out to be a good person, loved Sofia and after the war he thought for a long time that Sofia would come back.
These are terrible and moving life stories of the Sluiter and Sax family.
They are no longer there and should not be forgotten by the terrible events.
That is why today we are here, for Gerrit, Marianne and Fietje to place a Stolpensteen in the last place where they were arrested words for them.
Because Betty to give a voice and because we know that she would have liked to be there, Ilana reads a piece that I found.
Betty wrote it in 2011, it was placed in the magazine De Margriet.
Nomi Sluijter

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