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DRAPER GOODS I.VAN DAM CLOTHING. That is to read above the door of the store of Izaak van Dam in Zuidlaren. In the shopdoor are standing Izaak van Dam, his wife Eva Nathans, his niece Betje Polak, emloyee and an unmarried daughter of Eva's sister Aaltje and her husband Philip Polak and an unknown woman, presumably also an employee. Photo made about 1925.
Betje Polak, daughter of Philip Polak and Aaltje Nathans, was killed in Auschwitz during the Shoah. According her registration card from the archive of the Jewish Council, she has arrived in camp Westerboerk on 3 October 1942, has been deported to Auschwitz on 5 October and on 8 October 1942 upon ar…
Philip, Betje and Simon Polak were born in the hamlet of Schoonoord, in the municipality Sleen (nowadays municipality Coevorden). They are commemorated yearly in Schoonoord.
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In addition, a Jokos file (number 51228) on this family is at the Amsterdam Municipal Ar…