By establishing the date of death of Isaäc Rodrigues de Mercadothe official date is maintained as stated after the war by the Dutch Department of Justice.
In a document, which was a protocol of an on-site inspection conducted by Polish judicial authorities in March 1946 at the former camp of Blechh…
Isaäc Rodrigues de Mercado was a son of Aäron Rodrigues de Mercado and Abigael Valensa. He married 8 January 1936 in Amsterdam Sientje Rootveld, a daughter of Samuel Rootveld and Alida Brander. One day after their wedding they moved into the house at Hofmeijerstraat 13-1 st floor in Amsterdam.
The c…
Isaäc Rodrigues de Mercado verbleef in september-begin oktober 1942 in het werkkamp Conrad bij Staphorst.
Zie: Gert-Jan Westhoff, Dwangarbeid in Staphorst. Joodse werkkampen in Staphorst en Rouveen (Kampen 2012), pag. 121.
Isaäc Rodrigues de Mercado died on 26 October 1943 in Blechhammer camp and is burried in a common grave at the Community Cemetery in Opole - Polwies, …
In addition, a Jokos file (number 50301) on this family is at the Amsterdam Municipal Archive. Access is subject to authorization from the Stichting Joods Maatschappelijk Werk.
The period between 28 August till 12 December 1942 was known as the so-called “Kozel-period”. Named as such, as a number of transports with deported Jews from Belgium, France and Holland were stopped at Kozel station, about 80 km west from Auschwitz, where the Germans unloaded men who were suitable …
In the vicinity of the village of Blechhammer there were a number of forced labor camps with a total of about 50,000 forced laborers. One of these camps was later transformed into concentration camp Blechhammer, an outlying camp of the concentration camp KZ Auschwitz III Monowitz. There the Oberschl…
In the Second World War, Portuguese Jews tried to emphasize their Portuguese origin by obtaining a place on Portuguese and emigration lists in order to prevent deportation. This is what archive assistant Lydia Hagoort puts in “Het Beth Haim in Ouderkerk aan de Amstel”, a history of Beth Haim, the c…