Mietje Polak-Arpels

Mietje Arpels was a daughter of Salomon Arpels and Rebecca Polak. She was a seamstress in a garment factory. She married Meijer Polak in Amsterdam on 1 April 1942, a son of Abraham Polak and Femmina Caransa. She lived separately from her newly wed husband, at the addresses of their own parents. On 7 September 1942, Mietje Arpels was deported from Westerbork to Auschwitz, where she on 10 September …

In addition, Jokos files (numbers 30214, 31790) on this family or other family members are at the Amsterdam Municipal Archive. Access is subject to authorization from the Stichting Joods Maatschappelijk Werk.

Mietje Polak-Arpels joined the Hollandia-Kattenburg textile factory in Amsterdam on 8 July 1941. On Wednesday, 11 November 1942, around 4:30 PM, Willy Lages conducted the Sicherheitspolizei raid on the Hollandia factories. All exits were blocked, and the Jewish staff members were taken away that evening. Photographs of all workers taken away that evening, as well as those deported previously, appe…

Meijer Polak was het 1^e kind van Abraham Polak en Femmina Caransa. Op 18 mei 1936 werd hij ongeschikt bevonden voor de militaire dienst. Tijdens zijn keuring was hij behanger van beroep en had hij 8 klassen Lager Onderwijs genoten.

Vijf jaar later, op 1 april 1942, trouwde hij in Amsterdam met handwerkster (in een confectieatelier) Mietje Arpels, dochter van Salomon Arpels en Rebecca Polak uit Ams…