Nieuwendijk 19

Hendrika van der Sluis was born on February 2, 1869 in Meppel as the daughter of Simon van der Sluis and Lena van Rhijn. She married on 10 August 1907 in Vlissingen to Salomon Glazer, born in Meppel on 17 November 1868. He was a son of Levie Glazer and Mina Goldsteen. Together they moved into the Nieuwendijk 19 building in Vlissingen. In Vlissingen, Salomon worked for Gebr. Polak, a hardware and ship supplies business. Even before the birth of their daughter Mina Helena Salomé, he died on April 6, 1909 of the effects of blood poisoning. All Zeeland newspapers reported on April 10 how the remains were accompanied that morning by family and staff of Gebr. Polak was brought to the station surrounded by friends and acquaintances. Before the coffin was recovered on the train to Meppel, the head of the firm had delivered a speech on the spot outlining the deceased as an example to all. The highly pregnant Hendrika was left behind and gave birth to a healthy daughter ten days later on April 20.

Hendrika was not down to it, she would have had little choice. A year later, on March 2, 1910, she opened a cigar shop in her home on the Nieuwendijk on the corner of Lombardstraat. In the following years she would regularly place advertisements to draw attention to her range of cigars, cigarettes and tobacco. She also sold packaged coffee, tea and chocolate. Her shop "fully furnished according to the requirements of the times" and equipped with a wide choice from the most renowned factories does not seem to have been a fat spot. In December 1919 she borrowed f 6800 from her brother Salomon. Little is known about the life of her daughter Mina. In 1926 she attended the Municipal Trade Evening School, in 1928 she passed the shorthand typist exam. Then she started working as an office clerk.

Vlissingen was in the line of fire from the first day of the war and the battle for Walcheren in the summer of 1940 will have caused considerable damage to the building on the Nieuwendijk. Hendrika received a permit to repair the building on August 4, 1941. The question is whether the renovation was finished on time and she could reopen the store. In any case, no more advertisements appeared in the newspapers. When all Jewish residents of Zeeland had to leave the province in March 1942, Hendrika and Mina were in Emmen. They have never seen Vlissingen again. Both were killed in Auschwitz on October 8, 1942.

Katie Heyning
https://struikelstenenzeeland.nl/2019/05/30/hendrika-glazer-van-der-sluis-en-mina-helena-salome-glazer/

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