Hartog Wijnschenk, a son of Aaron Wijnschenk and Leentje Korper, was born on 1 February 1890 in Amsterdam. He was a fishmonger by trade and he married on 1 March 1911 in Amsterdam Helena Lakmaker, who was born there on 9 September 1889 as a daughter of Abraham Lakmaker and Rachel Beesemer. The coupl…
Hartog Wijnschenk, a son of Aäron Wijnschenk and Leentje Korper, married in 1911 Helena Lakmaker. The couple had four children, of whom one child died in 1938. Helena Lakmaker passed in 1939. In May 1941 Hartog Wijnschenk remarried Eva Delden; the couple had a son in 1942. City Archive of Amsterdam…
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 …