Bernard Nathan Jacob Menko

Bernard Nathan Jacob Menko was the youngest of the two children of the cattle trader Jacob Menko and Amalia van Gelder. He was born in Winterswijk at the address Tuunterstraat 7 on 21 February 1910 and just as his father, he was a cattle trader too.

On 10 May 1938, Bernard Nathan Jacob Menko married in Winterswijk Elisabeth Hamburger, who was  born on 2 September 1915 in Fürstenau (Germany) as a d…

Early October 1943, a month after the arrival of the transport of 7 September 1943 from Westerbork in Auschwitz with in total 987 deportees, among them also Bernard Nathan Jacob Menko, a group of 187 Dutch prisoners was formed who were deported to Warschau to clear the area of rubble of the devastated ghetto. Originally there was a group of 264 men, younger than 50 years, of whom 77 were killed in…

In addition, a Jokos file (number 12790) on this person is at the Amsterdam Municipal Archive. Access is subject to authorization from the Stichting Joods Maatschappelijk Werk.