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Estella "Stella" Agsteribbe was a Dutch gymnast. She won the gold medal as member of the Dutch gymnastics team at the 1928 Summer Olympics in her native Amsterdam. The team was inducted into the International Jewish Sports Hall of Fame in 1997.

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Else Berg was a German-born Dutch painter of Jewish descent; associated with the Bergense School. She was married to the Dutch painter, Mommie Schwarz.

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Ernst Julius Cohen ForMemRS was a Dutch Jewish chemist known for his work on the allotropy of metals. Cohen studied chemistry under Svante Arrhenius in Stockholm, Henri Moissan at Paris, and Jacobus van't Hoff at Amsterdam. In 1893 he became Van't Hoff's assistant and in 1902 he became professor of Physical Chemistry at the University of Utrecht, a position which he held until his retirement in 1939. Throughout his life, Cohen studied the allotropy of tin. Cohen's areas of research included polymorphism of both elements and compounds, photographic chemistry, electrochemistry, pizeochemistry, and the history of science. He published more than 400 papers and numerous books.

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Sophia Adriana Juliette de Vries-de Boer was a Dutch actress. She was active in theatre and film between 1894 and 1942. She was killed in the Auschwitz concentration camp in 1944.

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Edith Frank was the mother of Holocaust diarist Anne Frank, and her older sister Margot. She was a prisoner during the Holocaust at Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp, where she died from starvation.

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Salomon Garf was a Dutch painter and graphic artist; known for his portraits and still lifes.

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Simon (Sim) Gokkes was a Dutch-Jewish composer.

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Esther (Etty) Hillesum was the Dutch author of confessional letters and diaries which describe both her religious awakening and the persecutions of Jewish people in Amsterdam during the German occupation. In 1943 she was deported and killed in Auschwitz concentration camp.

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Samuel Jessurun de Mesquita was a Dutch graphic artist active in the years before the Second World War. His pupils included graphic artist M. C. Escher (1898–1972). A Sephardic Jew, in his old age he was sent to Auschwitz by the Nazis, where he was gassed along with his wife. After the war, de Mesquita was largely forgotten.

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Dick Kattenburg was a Dutch Jewish composer who was murdered at Auschwitz at the age of 24. His works have been recovered and recorded.

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Baruch Lopes Leão de Laguna was a Dutch painter of Portuguese-Jewish ancestry; associated with the Laren School. He is known primarily for portraits, genre scenes and still-lifes of flowers.

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Philip Mechanicus, born April 17, 1889 in Amsterdam and died in October 1944 in the Auschwitz concentration camp, was a Dutch journalist and diarist.

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Henri Emile "Hans" Mossel was a Dutch clarinetist and saxophonist.

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Juda Lion Palache was a professor of Semitic languages at the University of Amsterdam and a leader of the Portuguese Jewish community in that city. He came from the Pallache family.

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Henriëtte Henriquez Pimentel was a Dutch teacher and trained nurse who during the Second World War headed a crèche in Amsterdam which cared for small children while their parents were otherwise occupied. Together with Walter Süskind and Johan van Hulst, from around October 1942 she helped to save the lives of hundreds of Jewish infants by smuggling them into the homes of sympathetic host families. After being arrested by the Nazis in April 1943, she died in the Auschwitz concentration camp the following September.

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Anna Sophia Polak was a Jewish feminist and author. She was the director of the National Bureau of Women’s Labor from 1908 to 1936. She died in Auschwitz concentration camp.

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Samuel Leser Schwarz, known as Mommie was a Dutch Jewish painter and graphic artist. He also worked as a designer of book covers.

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Anna Maria (Settela) Steinbach was a Dutch girl who was gassed in Nazi Germany's Auschwitz-Birkenau extermination camp. Initially identified as a Dutch Jew, her personal identity and association with the Sinti group of the Romani people were discovered in 1994.

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Abraham Icek Tuschinski was a Dutch businessman of Jewish Polish descent who ordered the construction of the Tuschinski Theater, a famed cinema in Amsterdam.

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Israel Wijnschenk was a Dutch gymnast. He competed in seven events at the 1928 Summer Olympics. He was killed in the Auschwitz concentration camp during World War II.