Rika Fles was a daughter of Jacob Emanuel Fles and Mirjam Rodrigues. She was the widow of Hijman Fles, a son of Isaac Emanuel Fles and Lea Rodrigues, to whom she was married in Amsterdam on 21 February 1883 and who passed away, aged 71, on 11 July 1916 and who was interred in the Jewish Cemetery in Diemen.
Toghether with her husband Hijmam she had 12 children. Three of them have died as babies. Her other children were Isaac, Emanuel, Lea, Gracia, Sara, Benjamin, Jacob, Levie en Elisabeth.
City Archive of Amsterdam, family registration card of Hijman Fles, website Akevoth/Mokum/Burial Permits, website www.wiewaswie.nl and an addition of a visitor of the website.
Rika Fles died on 23 June 1943 in Westerbork transit camp and she was cremated on 25 June 1943. The urn with her ashes was placed on 12 August 1943 in Jewish cemetry in Diemen on field U, row 8, grave nr. 19.
Register van joden die in het kamp Westerbork zijn gecremeerd, 1943-1944; archief van de gemeente Westerbork, opgenomen in het archief van de gemeente Midden-Drenthe te Beilen, inv. n 3789