Baruch Lopes de Leão Laguna and Rose Lopes de Leão Laguna-Asscher lived at Zwaluwenweg 26, now 28, in Blaricum. Baruch, born in Amsterdam in 1864, grew up in the Portuguese-Jewish boys’ orphanage and became a successful painter after studying in Amsterdam. In 1898 he married Rose Asscher, born in London in 1872. They had two sons, Lodewijk and Martinus, and moved to the Gooi around 1899. In 1931 they bought villa “Denny Hole” in Blaricum and added a studio. Their son Martinus died in a motorcycle accident in 1937. In 1943 Baruch and Rose were forced to sell their home to an NSB family and went into hiding. Baruch was betrayed, deported via Vught to Auschwitz and murdered on 19 November 1943. Rose was arrested in January 1944 and murdered in Auschwitz on 11 February 1944. Their son Lodewijk survived.
