Meijer Bleekrode

Meijer Bleekrode was the son of Benjamin Bleekrode and Regina Boekman. The entire Bleekrode family worked in the diamond industry. Meijer Bleekrode learned to polish diamonds, but felt drawn to the art world. After completing his art education at the Quelliniusschool and Rijksnormaalschool, he decided to use his artistic talents for the socialist cause. His designs for the SDAP and the Algemeen Ne…

My grandfather was a friend of Meijer...his name was Levie Deen and moved from Amsterdam to settle in Loosdrecht before WW2. Levie (Louis) is mentioned in the book about Meijer printed during 1983...the book belongs to my mother Erica Moen-Deen. Meijer painted my grandfather and also my mother. She remembers travelling from Loosdrecht to Amsterdam to sit for many hours for the painting to be compl…

In addition, Jokos files (numbers 17044, 53686) on this family or other family members are at the Amsterdam Municipal Archive. Access is subject to authorization from the Stichting Joods Maatschappelijk Werk.

Volgens onderstaande bron is dit Alexander Baune Amsterdam, 6 september 1907 - Auschwitz, 29 december 1942

data.collectienederland.nl/portret door Meijer Bleekrode

Informatie over Alexander op deze site

https://www.joodsmonument.nl/nl/page/133328/alexander-baune

Aron van Kollem lived with his parents Simon and Roosje van Kollem at Vrolikstraat 162 I in Amsterdam during the war. Aron worked as a furrier and was unmarried. At the time that he registered for the military he weighed 65kg and was 176cm tall. He was incorporated into the service on 17-Feb-1936.

A little over two months after the deportation of his parents, Aron van Kollem was arrested on 15-Feb…