Hijman Oudkerk

Rozette van Praag, born in Amsterdam 11 March 1894, was a daughter of Zacharias van Praag and Hanna van Emden. She married Michael Machin in Amsterdam on 15 February 1917, a son of Hirch Machin from Minsk and Susanna Löwenstein from Enschede. Rozette and Michael had a daughter Susanna on 13 July 1918, but from this wedlock no other offspring was born; the marriage ended by a divorce on 12 June 192…

Elisabeth Rokkestikker was a daughter of the blacksmith Jacob David Philip Rokkestikker (Amsterdam 1846-1916) and Roosje van Gelderen (Leiden 1845-Amsterdam 1909). Elisabeth was born in Amsterdam on 15 March 1881 and worked as a shop assistant.

She married Hijman Oudkerk on 25 March 1908 in Weesp. He was a son from the 2^nd marriage of Meijer Oudkerk (Schagen 1846-Amsterdam 1927) and the Amsterdam …

A baker lived with his wife and about ten children on the third floor above the Oudkerk family. When the Germans were about to arrive, the Oudkerk family asked if they could take shelter with their upstairs neighbors for a few days. The few days turned out into months and finally these people were betrayed and taken away. The baker also did not return from Sachsenhausen camp, where he was imprison…

According to a list with shops of Jewish owners, compiled by the Amsterdam police in 1940, this family had a textile goods shop, address: Bilderdijkstraat 71 in Amsterdam.
Abstracts of the police archives which are currently at the Amsterdam municipal archives