Biography

About Henderina Jette Boers.

Henderina Jette Boers from Leeuwarden was a daughter of Salomon Boers and Roosje Keizer. She married at age 44 the widower of Esther Voorzanger (deceased 23 January 1913), Jacob Pakkedrager from Hilversum on 12 November 1913 in Amsterdam, a son of Grietje Pakkedrager.

As widow of Jacob Pakkedrager, who passed away on 28 July 1917 and who was interred on 30 July in the Jewish Cemetery in Diemen, she married the 2nd time at age 50 to the 60-year old widower of Susanna Löwenstein, Hirsch Machin from Minsk, a son of Salomon Machin and Marie Rollen. Hirsch Machin had six children from his first marriage. Henderina Jette had no children of her self.

Henderina Jette Boers was born into a family with six children, of whom one daughter has died in childhood and two brothers have survived the Holocaust. Her brother Philip and his wife, her sister Sara (widow of Joseph de Jong) with whom she lived at the same address and she self have been killed during the Shoah.

City Archive of Amsterdam, archive cards of Henderina Jette Boers, Sara Boers, Hirsch Machin, Peoples Registry register 202, page 31 and the websites www.allefriezen.nl, www.wiewaswie.nl and akevoth/Mokum/burial permits.