Samuel Prijs, born 6 April 1898 in Amsterdam, was the youngest son of Marcus Prijs and Mietje Gompers. He married there on 16 June 1926 to the 3-year younger Grietje de Vries, who was born in Amsterdam as a daughter of Jacob de Vries from Schagen and Gezina Rosenbaum from Zevenaar. The couple had on…
In addition, Jokos files (numbers 5895, 6827) on this family or other family members are at the Amsterdam Municipal Archive. Access is subject to authorization from the Stichting Joods Maatschappelijk Werk.The Jokos files reveal that a claim was lodged for compensation for valuables surrendered to t…
A direct consequence of the German measures to isolate the Jewish population from the rest of society was that the Jewish community could no longer make use of non-Jewish services and suppliers.
Jewish tradespeople such as bakers, hairdressers, butchers, fishmongers, grocers, etc. received a special…