Aaltje was a daughter of Meijer Polak and Mietje Vischjager. She married 27 December 1917 in Amsterdam Michael Michelson, a son of Mendel Arie Michelson and Eva Schrijver. The couple had three children.
Aaltje had five other siblings, of whom one baby-brother has died in 1902, only ten months old. The others, Klaartje, Leentje, Raatje en Anna, have been killed all in the Shoah.
City Archive of Amsterdam, archive card of Meijer Polak and website www.wiewaswie.nl.
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