The Amsterdam Vondelpark ca 1924 with from left to right Johanna Dekker(Anna) (daughter of Levie Abraham Dekker and Rebecca van Vliet); Levie Dekker (Louis)(son of Jacob Dekker and Henny van Dam); Celine Dekker-Rueff (daughter of Leopold Rueff and Julie Levy and spouse of Salomon Dekker) and Rebecca Berger (Beppie) (daughter of Emma Dekker and Isaias Berger).
Photo ca 1924.
Source: private collection Max Degen
Postcard from Camp Westerbork from Louis and Rebecca Degen, which they have sent to J. van der Glas (Sjaak), where their youngest son Marcus (Max) was brought to. In this card they show interest in "your nephew", glossing over that they in fact meant their own little son. The postcard has a wrong date: 1942 should be 1943.
Zandvoort, summer 1937 with from left to right Eva Degen, Rebecca Degen-Berger, Emma Berger-Dekker, Sientje Degen-van der Glas and Klaartje Koster (survived the Shoah).
The wedding of Dina Smeer to Semaria (Mario) Gabay from Istanbul on 26 April 1942 in Amsterdam. In the back row from left to right Branca Smeer-Degen, the groom Semaria (Mario) Gabay, bride Dina Smeer, Meijer Smeer (father of the bride), an unknown man and half visible on the right Eva Smeer. The children, brides boy and brides maid are unknown and on the right Isiaias (Sjakie) Degen sitting on the lap of his mother Rebecca Degen-Berger.
Source: Marcus Degen
Rebecca Berger was a daughter of the in 1868 in Ostrowieck in Russia born Isaias Berger and his 2nd wife Emma Dekker, daughter of Levie Abraham Dekker and Rebecca van Vliet. He has become a widower of Lidewy van Leerdam in 1913 and remarried in 1915. Isaias Berger passed away in 1923.
Rebecca Berge…
Louis Degen and Rebecca Berger had two children. One child survived the war by going into hiding.
Addition of a visitor of the website
In an episode of Hart van Nederland the surviving child speaks about this family.
In addition, a Jokos file (number 32204) on this family is at the Amsterdam Muni…