Roerstraat 101
Amsterdam
Arnold was born in Amsterdam on August 20, 1908, the son of Isaac and Rosette van Straten, Arnold van Straten worked as an office clerk after graduating from a Hogere Burgerschool and later became a commercial agent. In 1937 he married Lea Mendelson, the daughter of a tailor, born on August 2, 1907. The young couple settled in a modern apartment at Roerstraat 101 II. Their son Isaac was born in 1938.
In November 1942, Van Straten and his son Isaac went into hiding in the woods near Ernst Gelderland, while Lea found her own hiding place elsewhere. He took the name 'Peter Derkman' and Isaac was given the name Pietje (Jits). They found shelter on the farm of Aalt van Wemde. However, traitors betrayed their whereabouts. Isaac was taken to another safer location, and his father was hidden in the woods in an underground shelter, described as a "coffin." Unaccustomed to hardship, Van Straten's health rapidly deteriorated. Van Wemde considered it a "bad story" and later recalled that Van Straten "was used to a warm room and a good life and immediately got a serious throat infection in the woods, so bad that he could hardly eat" and that 'we were very afraid that something would go wrong'. It took fourteen days before it was possible to give him a safe home.
At the end of November 1943 Van Straten was joined in his newest underground hideout by his protectors Aalt van Wemde and Wim Mulder, and they built a bigger and better underground hut. Wim Mulder's family supplied them with bread twice a week. Mulder and Van Wemde would also visit local friendly farmers for hot meals and bring a pan of food for Van Straten, who was nowhere to be seen as a Jewish man. For a while he was accompanied by his 5-year-old son.
In December 1944 'Peter Derkman' was arrested together with other members of a local resistance group and sent to prison in the Willem III barracks in Apeldoorn, where he remained for more than a month. Arnold van Straten was sent to the Amersfoort transit camp on February 1, 1945. The next day he was transferred to the Neuengamme concentration camp, where he arrived on February 4. His camp number was 706xx. He remained a prisoner until the evacuation of the camp. He died during the evacuation marches near Lübeck on April 26, 1945.
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