Leopold Pollack and his two sons were the owners of Delicia, a pastry shop and lunchroom in Beethovenstraat that was well known in Amsterdam’s southern district in the 1930s. During the 1942 razzias, the occupying forces assigned Delicia the task of providing food for the Jews being held in the Holl…
Leo Pollack also had a daughter, Zerline Else Pollack (born Frankfurt am Main February 22, 1910; died NY May 23, 1981). Her husband, Paul Jakubowski (born Selestadt, France May 30, 1904; died NY April 13, 1983) also worked at Delicia. Else and Paul fled Amsterdam for New York in 1940. They settled i…
See also Abstracts of the police archives which are currently at the Amsterdam municipal archives
In addition, Jokos files (numbers 51512, 18988) on this family are at the Amsterdam Municipal Archive. Access is subject to authorization from the Stichting Joods Maatschappelijk Werk.