Appeal to vote for Henri Polak in the Amsterdam city council elections of July 1897 Salvador Bloemgarten en Jaap van Velzen, Joods Amsterdam in een bewogen tijd 1890-1940 (Zwolle 1997) 79.
Henri Polak was educated at the private Jewish 'school of master Halberstadt'. He resided in London for a few years and then became a committee member of the Dutch Association of Diamond Workers in Amsterdam.
After an all-out strike of diamond workers, the General Dutch Union of Diamond Workers (Al…
We have been unable to determine whether one or more members of this family survived the war. While their names do not appear on the lists of survivors, we have not been able to trace them in In Memoriam either. They are therefore labeled as 'surviving' and their names are not listed.
In addition,…