Hendrika Glazer-Van der Sluis & Mina Glazer - Vlissingen (NL) - Stolpersteine on Waymarking.com

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HIER WOONDE
HENDRIKA GLAZER
-VAN DER SLUIS
GEB. 1869
VERMOORD 8.10.1942
AUSCHWITZ

HIER WOONDE
MINA HELENA
GLAZER
GEB. 1909
VERMOORD 8.10.1942
AUSCHWITZ

Additional information:
Hendrika van der Sluis was born on February 2, 1869 in Meppel as the daughter of Simon van der Sluis and Lena van Rhijn. She married Salomon Glazer on August 10, 1907 in Vlissingen, born in Meppel on November 17, 1868. He was a son of Levie Glazer and Mina Goldsteen. Together they moved into the building Nieuwendijk 19 in Vlissingen. In Vlissingen Salomon worked for the company Gebr. Polak, a business in hardware and ship supplies. Even before the birth of their daughter Mina Helena Salomé, he died on April 6, 1909 from blood poisoning. All newspapers in Zeeland reported on April 10 how the remains were accompanied that morning by family and staff of the Gebr. Polak was taken to the station surrounded by friends and acquaintances. Before the coffin was recovered on the train to Meppel, the head of the company had given a speech on the spot in which he portrayed the deceased as an example to all. The heavily pregnant Hendrika stayed behind and gave birth to a healthy daughter ten days later on April 20.

Hendrika did not give up, she must have had little choice. Just under a year later, she opened a cigar shop on March 2, 1910 in her home on Nieuwendijk on the corner of Lombardstraatje. In the following years, she would regularly place advertisements to draw attention to her range of cigars, cigarettes and tobacco. She also sold packaged coffee, tea and chocolate. Her shop, 'completely furnished according to the requirements of the time' and equipped with a wide choice from the most renowned factories, does not seem to have been a big deal. In December 1919 she borrowed 6,800 guilders from her brother Salomon. Little is known about the life of her daughter Mina. In 1926 she attended the Municipal Trade Evening School, and in 1928 she passed the exam as a shorthand typist. She then started working as an office clerk.

Vlissingen was in the line of fire from the first day of the war and the battle for Walcheren in the summer of 1940 must have caused significant damage to the building on the Nieuwendijk. Hendrika received permission to restore the building on August 4, 1941. The question is whether the renovation was completed in time and she could reopen the store. In any case, no more advertisements appeared in the newspapers. When all Jewish residents of Zeeland had to leave the province in March 1942, Hendrika and Mina were in Emmen. They never saw Vlissingen again. Both were killed in Auschwitz on October 8, 1942.
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Year/Jahrgang: 10/08/1942 Deported to: Auschwitz

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