Szymon Kon

The Kon family, consisting of Mosiek Markus Kon, born in Plock, Poland in 1878, his wife Chana Dydakov, born in Biezun, Poland in 1882, and their children Hersz, Icek, Estera Brana, Cyon and Szymon, all born in Plock in Poland, arrived from Plock in Amsterdam in July 1931. 

After their settling in Amsterdam, where they have lived for a start and among others at Govert Flinckstraat 416 parterre, th…

In addition, a Jokos file (number 33764) on this family is at the Amsterdam Municipal Archive. Access is subject to authorization from the Stichting Joods Maatschappelijk Werk.

Sunday 20 June 1943: in the southern and eastern part of Amsterdam a big raid has taken place on the last remaining Jews in the city. Germans as well as the Amsterdam police blocked all streets, went into houses to bring the Jews to the gathering places.

At this raid, a large part of the remaining Jews of Amsterdam-East and South were made “ready to march” (marschfertig). The Germans boasted about…