Biography

About Carolina de Haas-Polak

Carolina Polak was a daughter of Simon Polak and Bettje van Rhijn, a family with in total nine children. One child died in infancy, only 1 year old and one child has survived the Holocaust. All other children, namely Salomo, Philip, Hartog, Harmannus, Bertha, Anna and Carolina self, have been killed in the Shoah. Both her parents died before the war.

Website www.wiewaswie.nl and an addition of a visitor of the website.


This person is commemorated on a memorial in Wierden. More information on this memorial can be found (in Dutch) on the website of the Nationaal Comité 4 en 5 mei.