Markt 28
Meerssen
Just like his (great) cousin Albert, Salomon Zeligman runs a butcher shop, on the Markt in Meerssen. Salomon is married to Mathilde Lichtenstein. They have four children who still live at home: Adolf, Joseph, Martha and Jeannette.
Just like the children Hildegard and Herbert of the Zeligman family from St. Josephstraat, they are picked up by the Nazis on August 25, 1942. With the same truck. It is a funfair on the Market. Joseph is not there. He did not wait for the calamity and fled to Belgium. People from the neighborhood have come over. There are many. They shout to the Germans to "leave those people alone." One of them manages to slip past the Germans and hug Martha for a moment.
"The things they took with them are thrown to the truck behind them." When the truck pulls away, they wave. "They thought: They will never come back." There is a report from the Chief Assistant Secretary of Camp Westerbork that they were deported 'abroad' on 25 August 1942 (...). '
Jeannette and Martha Zeligman arrive in Auschwitz at the end of August, where they are murdered in the gas chamber on August 31.
Adolf Zeligman survives the first selection on arrival and has to work for the Germans and is killed in the course of 1943: somewhere in Central Europe.
On his pedigree card at the Jewish Council it says about Salomon Zeligman that he arrived in Westerbork on April 1, 1944 from Gasthuisstraat 19, and was placed in barrack 6. In the same archive a card with April 5, 1944 as the date on which he was transported.
According to her pedigree card at the Jewish Council, Mathilde Zeligman arrived in Westerbork (barrack 65) on January 15, 1944. She too goes on the train to Auschwitz on April 5, 1944. So they went separate ways since October 30, 1944 and reunited for a short while on April 5, 1944. Three days later they are dead: murdered.
Joseph Zeligman joins the resistance in Belgium. His face is known to the Germans because a Rothem police officer in the parental home took his portrait from the wall. He'll walk the rest of the war with a weapon in his pocket, ready to use it. He survived the war and returned to Meerssen on June 11, 1945, moved temporarily into the building at Markt 26 until the parental home at Markt 30 became available to him again on August 1, 1945. He tries to revive the butcher's shop but fails. He lived there until March 1948 and then moved to Huizen where he died in 1971.
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