Zacharias van Praag

Zacharias van Praag was a son of Henri van Praag and Betje Samson van Bever. He married 27 August 1876 in Zaandam Schoontje Geleerd, a daughter of David Levie Geleerd and Judic Eliazer Drukker. The couple had six children: Evalina, Betje, Henri, Levie, Louis en David.

City Archive of Amsterdam, family registration card of Zacharias van Praag and website www.wiewaswie.nl.

In addition, a Jokos file (number 12520) on this family is at the Amsterdam Municipal Archive. Access is subject to authorization from the Stichting Joods Maatschappelijk Werk.

Zacharias van Praag died on 19 April 1943 in Westerbork transit camp and he was cremated on the same day. The urn with his ashes was placed on the Jewish cemetry in Diemen on field U, row 4, grave nr. 23.
Register van joden die in het kamp Westerbork zijn gecremeerd, 1943-1944; archief van de gemeente Westerbork, opgenomen in het archief van de gemeente Midden-Drenthe te Beilen, inv. n 3789

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