Jan Bertsstraat 14

Samuel Rotenberg and his wife Chaja Ester Rotenberg-Schlomovicz lived in 1942 with their son Saul in Jan Bertsstraat 14 at 1 high. The family had previously lived on the same street at number 29. Samuel was born in Lwow (1906) and Chaja in Kamionka in 1907.

The Rotenberg family was neighbors of the Renema family in 1942. Father Gerrit Ren afterwards sometimes helped his neighbors on the Sabbath. Samuel was a friendly, hardworking market merchant with a stand
on Vlooienburg in the Amsterdam Jodenbuurt.
Son Saul, a serious boy with dark viewers and black hair, went to the Christian kindergarten on the Ouderkerkerlaan every day, by the hand of his mother. One day, the Rotenberg family had disappeared. Ria Niempoort, who was friends with Saultje, missed him in class in the spring of 1942. The teacher made up an excuse, but Ria knew the stories about the persecution of the Jews from home. Father Nieuwpoort worked at the distribution office and in that position could occasionally embezzle some receipts for people in hiding.54 After the mandatory departure from Diemen, the Rotenberg family had moved to 41 Holendrechtstraat 41 in Amsterdam-South on 5 June 1942. There the family was taken from home in April 1943 and brought to Konzentrationslager 1-lerzogenbusch, better known as Kamp Vught, on 20 April 1943 via the Hollandsche Schouwburg. Omnia Treuhand said at the liquidation of the small one-man business of Samuel Rotenberg that there was nothing to get at Rotenberg. Not in Diemen and not in Amsterdam.
From the war diary of Klaartje de Zwarte-Walvisch, kept in Vught, we get a picture of the circumstances in Vught during the stay of the Rotenberg family.
On arrival at the camp, the men were separated from the women and children. Father Solomon almost certainly had to do forced labor on the Moerdijk like most Jewish men in Vught. The 6-year-old Saultje was housed in the barracks of the children aged 6 to 8 years. The children's barracks were far away from the women's barracks. Mother Chaja was put to work as a seamstress and only occasionally got a glimpse of Saul. On Sunday afternoon, parents and children were allowed to visit each other for a few hours.

The children not only missed their parents, but were also frightened by the Aufseherinnen with their shouts and the SS men with their dogs. Sometimes a child had to watch his father being kicked and beaten by SS men crawling through the camp.
Many children were malnourished and in poor condition. When the Aufseherinnen lost their temper, they shouted and cursed, kicking and beating as well.
Klaartje de Zwarte-Walvisch wrote on 6 June 1943 in her war diary about the tragedy that also affected Saultje Rotenberg and his family: "The worst thing that has happened so far has been communicated to us. Last night we were informed that the children's camp will be closed. All children under the age of sixteen have to leave the camp, it was really beyond comprehension.
... Men had to let their wives leave with sickly babies. We were desperate. In addition, all men who worked on the Moerdijk were not allowed to say goodbye to their wives and children. I walked out of the barracks and felt to see a good friend of mine. On the way to the children's churn I saw terrible scenes. Women screamed with fear and dismay. They screamed like crazy and really did not know what they were saying. It was hell in the children's camp. A terrible stench came over me and I struggled not to vomit. Little children crawled through the sand and cried to feel sorry. What a misery. Men lay forward on the table and sobbed. Sobbed like little children because they were so powerless against what was done to them. Everywhere I went nothing but crying women and men. ... A father wanted to close his child's throat because he did not want to part with it. He preferred to kill it himself than to give it into unknown hands. Fortunately, his plan was thwarted. I heard from a woman that she wanted to cut her wrists. ... In the barrack, men and women were clasped and holding each other as if they never wanted to divorce again. What a state of despair. Many men have been unable to say goodbye. Only those who have personally experienced this suffering can understand it. And those who have not experienced this and will read this sometime must understand. (...) At the fence separating the men's and women's camps, the SS stood with a large police dog. The two leaders were there. We were allowed up to the gate to help carry the luggage. At the fence, terrible scenes of relatives saying goodbye took place again. But those who did this to us were laughing heartily. "

Chaja Esther Rotenberg and her Saultje were brought to Westerbork on June 7, 1943, where they lived for more than three weeks. On June 29, 1943 they were deported to Sobibor where they were gassed after arrival on July 2, 1943. Father Samuel was transported on September 21, 1943. He was killed on January 21, 1944 in Auschwitz.
On February 16, 1944, one drs. Jansen removed the small sole proprietorship of Samuel Rotenberg from the administration of the Central Cartotheek der Detailhandel Ambacht.

Although the Rotenberg family in Poland had already been murdered by the Nazis, Verwalter S.J. Gorter of Omnia Treuhandgesellschaft at the liquidation on April 4, 1944: "Der Jude ist mitgeteilt dass er sein Gewerbe nicht mehr ausüben darf."

The name of Saul Rotenberg is included on the children's memorial with the 1269 names of the children's transports in 1943 in the National Monument Camp Vught.

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