The Van Amerongen family lived at Seringenstraat 7 in Haarlem. Aäron van Amerongen, born in Amsterdam in 1891, worked as a travelling salesman, cigar maker and merchant. He married Eva Dingsdag from Haarlem in 1921. Eva, born in 1892, had worked as a seamstress and saleswoman; all eight of her siblings who survived childhood were murdered during the Holocaust. Aäron and Eva lived at Seringenstraat from 1930 with their daughters Sara and Hanna. Before deportation they were forced to move to Amsterdam. Aäron, Eva and their younger daughter Hanna, born in 1927, were deported from Westerbork on 23 March 1943 and murdered in Sobibor on 26 March 1943. Hanna was 15. Sara had already been deported from Westerbork and murdered in Sobibor on 5 March 1943.
