Lena Vierra was a daughter of Isaac Vierra en Klaartje Kalkoene. She was born in a family of 10 children, among them she herself and a baby sister Elisabeth, who died only 2 months old in 1905. Her brother Leman, (married to Helena Polak) passed away before 1940. All her other siblings, David, Marianne, Israel, Willem, Rachel, Naatje and Rebecca have died during the Holocaust.
Lena married in Amsterdam on 15 January 1919 to Jacob Polak, son of Eliazer Polak and Sara Maandag, from whom she has been divorced on 29 Augustus 1931.
From this marriage 496486 was born o 11 October 1923 in Antwerpen.
On 8 April 1942 Lena married again in Arnhem to the widower of Johanna Hermanides Bishoff, Aaron Abas, son of Mozes Abas and Grietje Leijden van Amstel.
City Archive of Amsterdam, family registration card of Isaac Vierra, archive card of Aaron Abas and website www.wiewaswie.nl.
The birth-certificate of Lena Vierra shows that her father was a diamond worker. Her mother was without a profession.
Addition of a visitor of the website
The police commissioner of Arnhem requested that Lena Abas-Vierra, a resident of Arnhem, be located, detained and brought to trial. She was suspected of having changed her place of residence without the required authorization. This description referred to Jews who had gone into hiding.
Algemeen Politieblad, nr 2, 14 January 1943, 32, notice 120