Israël Samuël Kropveld worked as a street trader twice a week in the fishing village of Urk. He settled there shortly before the war. In May 1942 his family had to move to Amsterdam by order of the occupying forces. A year later, they were deported to Sobibor by way of Westerbork.
In 1995, a war memorial was unveiled in Urk with the names of Israël Samuël Kropveld, his wife Hendrika Kropveld-de l…