Zijlstraat 41a

Hyman Leonardus van der Lijn was born in Antwerp in 1882, but settled in the Netherlands where in 1906 he married Aaltje Gokkes, a few years his junior, born in 1884 in Harlingen. In that year Hyman is a cigar shopkeeper in Amsterdam. Four children were born of this marriage: Gonda, Benjamin, Lion and Betsie. Of these four children, only Lion survived the persecution of the Jews. After the death of his wife, Hyman remarried in Zaandam in 1919 to Rachel Achttienribben, widow of Jacob Schuitevoeder. Together they had a son Abraham.

Rachel Achttienribben was born in October 1885 as the daughter of the Amsterdam diamond cutter Abraham Achttienribben and his wife Jetje Beber. In 1902 she worked as a maid and in 1911 she married the Amsterdam butcher Jacob Schuiteleider. After his death in 1917, Rachel remarried in 1919 in Zaandam to the waiter Hyman Leonardus van der Lijn.

Hyman worked in the hospitality industry, including as a waiter in Zandvoort, but in 1932 the family settled in Haarlem, where Hyman ran a meat shop at 41a Zijlstraat. About five years later he opened a 'Restaurant-Automatic' in the same plot, where fine meats, comestibles and freshly baked fish were available and could also be consumed. When the German occupier imposed all kinds of restrictions on Dutch Jews, it was decreed in 1941 that they only had access in Haarlem to Hyman van der Lijn's restaurant on Zijlstraat and that of I. Noach on Kruisstraat.

Around that time, father Hyman, mother Rachel, daughter Gonda from Hyman's first marriage and son Abraham lived in the house on Zijlstraat. In 1942 they were taken to Westerbork and deported from there on 28 August 1942. A few days later, on August 31, Hyman Leonardus van der Lijn was murdered in Auschwitz.

Gonda van der Lijn was born in 1907 as the eldest child in the marriage of Aaltje Gokkes and Hyman Leonardus van der Lijn. After the death of her mother, her father remarried Rachel Achttienribben in 1919 and Gonda was taken into the Van der Lijn-Achttienribben family.

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