Biography

About Abraham Allemans and his family

Abraham Allemans, born 19 December 1874 in Rotterdam, was a son of Levie (Louis) Allemans and Clara Kadiks. At age 34, he married the 24-year old Bliemei Ruchel Eijsen, who was born on 17 February 1885 in Kolo (Russia) in Rotterdam on 14 October 1909. She was a daughter of Josef Eijsen and Necha-Lie Tschuk. The couple had a daughter Alice, born in Bern (Switzerland) on 19 July 1904, who has been legalized at the time of his wedding on 14 October 1909.  Abraham, as well his wife and daughter werd killed in the Shoah.

Abraham Allemans resided in Antwerp for some time.  His (future) wife arrived in Rotterdam in 1908 for her wedding in 1909; his daughter Alice came from Bern to Rotterdam in 1909, however nine months before the marriage of her parents.  In March 1915, all went again to Antwerp till 1927; then Abraham and his wife returned to Rotterdam. Their daughter Alice was already married in Antwerp in 1925.

Bliemei Ruchel Eijsen resided in Brussels before she came from Antwerp to Rotterdam in order to get wed to Abraham Allemans. It seems rather certain that Bliemei Ruchel Eijsen some years before, as some point has stayed in Bern in Switzerland because her daughter Alice was born there in 1904. Bliemei had a sister, named Sura Eijsen, born in Kolo on 26 May 1888, unmarried and dressmaker by trade, who lived in Switzerland (Basel). She arrived in 1911 from Basel in Rotterdam, lived in with the Abraham Allemans family but returned again to Basel in Switzerland in 1914.

The daughter of Abraham Allemans and Bliemei Ruchel Eijsen, Alice Allemans, married 18 Augustg 1925 in Antwerp. Two years later, in 1927, Abraham and Bliemei moved from Antwerp to Rotterdam, where they stayed at Westewagenstraat 621b, until they moved on 24 September 1936 to Katshoek 26a in Rotterdam. Their latest removal and address was certainly after the outbrok of the Second World War and resided Abraham and Bliemei at Volkerakstaat 45 in Den Haag.

On the registration cards of the Jewish Council of Abraham Allemans as well of his wife Bliemei, is listed that both have been registered in Camp Westerbork on 1 December 1942 and that they were deported to Auschwitz on 8 December where they have been killed immediately upon arrival there on 11 December 1943.

City Archive of  Rotterdam, family registration cards of Abraham Allemans; wedding certificate of Abraham Allemans from Rotterdam, year 1909, cert. nr. o14; The Dossiers of Foreigners of the City of Antwerp, nrs. 156182 (images 53-70) and 184461 (images 808-815) and the file cabinet of the Jewish Council, registration cards of Abraham Allemans and Bliemei Ruchel Allemans-Eijsen.

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