Salomon Lopes Cardozo, a merchant, married Rachel Beesemer in 1923. They had four children: Elisabeth, a seamstress, Klara, Abraham and Louis. Salomon was murdered in Auschwitz on 30 September 1942. Rachel, Klara, Abraham and Louis were murdered in Sobibor on 14 May 1943, Elisabeth a week later. Louis, the youngest, was five years old.