Bernard Speijer

Bernard Speijer was born in Amsterdam on 18 May 1898 as a son of Jacob Speijer and Esther Vischschraper. He was a street market vendor and a parlor by profession and during the war employee at the Jewish Council, where he was included on 19 Febuary 1943 at the department food preparation for Westerbork.

Bernard Speijer married on 27 August 1919 in Amsterdam Marianna à Catan, a daughter of Emanuel …

Bernard is een zoon van Jacob Speijer en Esther Vischschraper. Hij trouwde augustus 1919 met Marianna a Catan.

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Jacob, 1 september 1920
Emanuel, 3 december 1921
Maurice, 28 november 1923
Esther, 24 juni 1928
Greta, 12 augustus 1929
Dora, 23 november 1930
Jozef, 24 november 1931
Simon, 11 februari 1933
Louis, 1934 - 1935
Elisabeth, 19 september 1935

Het gezin Speijer heeft langer dan 20 j…

In addition, Jokos files (numbers 15687, 50984, 50273) on this family or other family members are at the Amsterdam Municipal Archive. Access is subject to authorization from the Stichting Joods Maatschappelijk Werk.

The Jokos files reveal that a claim was lodged for compensation for valuables surrendered to the Lippmann-Rosenthal looting bank (L-claim, number 2677/5615).

The only German-style concentration camp that was set up in our country was concentration camp Vught, which was opened in January 1943. The camp had a number of “Aussenkommando’s“ (satellite camps) including Moerdijk. This command was located in the old barracks of the anti-aircraft artillery near the harbour. Fifty S.S. men were appointed as guards and the first prisoners arrived on 26 March 1943…