Mozes Polak, born in Steeenwijk on 15 April 1869, was a son of Benjamin Polak and Rebecca van der Velde. He married at the age of 33 in Culemborg on 13 August 1902 the 45-year old Henriëtte Wijzenbeek, born there on 28 April 1857 as daughter of Isak Wijzenbeek and Betsie Berlijn. The couple had no children.
Mozes was born into a family of five children, of whom two girls already within 12 months h…