Rachel van West

Rachel van West was one of the five children of Levie van West and Margaretha de Metz. She was born in Amsterdam on 4 September 1877.Her other sibs were Esther, born 3 October 1872, married to David Koekoek; Mauritz, born 10 July 1875 in Amsterdam; Alexander born 25 July 1879 in Amsterdam and Henriette, born on 7 December 1884 also in Amsterdam, who was married to Abraham Daniëls.

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This transport includes 1000 persons, among them 344 children. They have never been so numerous before. It indicates a new big raid, the second of the “final solution”, once again in Antwerp with the cooperation of the Belgian police, during the night of 28 to 29 August. The list of the convoy, that was started on the eve of the raid was already complete on 29 August, because of the arrests during…

Rachel van West

Felixarchief 1922