Jozef Baks was a son of Abraham Jozef Baks and Saarte Frank. He was married to Zyse Graudans from Russia, but he lived separated from his wife. According the registration card of the Jewish Council, Jozes was sent to Camp Westerbork on 25 March 1943, from where he was deported to Sobibor on 30 March. On 2 April 1943 upon arrival in Sobibor he was killed immediately.
Jozef Baks was born into a family with six children, of whom one son born in 1883 has died already in 1884, only 1 year old. His other siblings were Rosette born in 1875, Maurits born in 1877, he self born in 1881, Izaak born in 1885 and Mietje born in 1888. They have been all killed in the Shoah. His parents were married in Deventer on 8 April 1869 and they have died already before the war.
Website www.wiewaswie.nl and the archive of the Jewisch Council, card of Jozef Baks.
Jozef Baks appears on a handwritten list of all people who worked for the Dutch-Jewish Community in Haarlem during the early years of the war. He is listed as a 'minyanist' (a man present in the synagogue to make up the minimum number of ten for a service). A photograph remains of each official. Jozef Baks lived separately from his wife. He lived at 21 Lange Wijngaardstraat in Haarlem.
Jewish Historical Museum, Documents collection, inv.nr 1001