Max Wallinski, a son of Abraham Wallinski and Chaja Kotinson, was born 1878 in Kiev and arrived 4 January 1911 in Amsterdam, unmarried and tailor by trade. He found dwelling space at Manegestraat 4 (¹), but moved December 1911 already to Utrechtsestraat 37. Max Wallinski left Amsterdam for London but returned August 1915 in Amsterdam and ended up at Muiderstraat 27.
Max Wallinksi married Raatje Waterman 19 January 1916 in Amsterdam. She was a seamstress and a daughter of Nathan Waterman and Mirjam Rodrigues Pereira. The young couple started at Muiderstraat, but after their wedding, they still moved eight times, before they were registered 9 November 1930 at the address IJsselstraat 2 IInd stock in Amsterdam.
Max and Raatje, (also named Rachel), had four daughters together: Chaja, born 1916 - she survived the Shoah; Mirjam born 1917, Rebecca born 1925 and Sara in 1933. Sara was born at IJsselstraat, the other three daughter still at Muiderstraat. Their daughter Rebecca however passed away already in 1939, only 13 years old and she was interred in the Jewish Cemetery in Diemen.
Per 10 January 1941 registration for Jews became obligatory and also the Wallinksi family was registered by the Jewish Council in Amsterdam. According Max Wallinski’s registration card, he was brought into Camp Westerbork 29 June 1943. Furhtermore was mentioned that he was working for the Jewisch Council in General Service (Leg. D.1826). Max stayed a short time in barack 93 but was put on transport 6 July to Sobibor, where he was killed immediately upon arrival 9 July 1943.
His wife Raatje Waterman however, together with Sara, the youngest daughter of the family, were only deported to Westerbork 20 January 1944, where they stayed in barack 67.
Also his daughter Mirjam, who was married in 1941 to Arnold Houtkruijer, and who had a “Sperre” (exempted from deportation – until further notice) because of function of her spouse, was brought in Westerbork 20 January 1944. Apparently, she didn’t obey to an earlier call for “Arbeitseinsatz” (employment in Germany), reason why Mirjam most likely was arrested early 1944 and sent to Westerbork as a “penal case”. She too stayed in barack 67 till she was put on transport to Auschwitz five days later, 25 January as “penal case”. Her mother Raatje Waterman and her younger sister Sara were deported too with that same transport and upon arrival 28 January 1944 in Auschwitz, all were immediately killed.
City Archive of Amsterdam, family registration card of Max Wallinski and archive cards of Max Wallinski and Raatje Waterman; website www.wiewaswie.nl, wedding Max Wallinski and Raatje Waterman; the file cabinet of the Jewish Council, registration cards of Max Wallinski, Raatje Waterman, Sara Wallinski and Mirjam Houtkruijer-Wallinski and the website http://www.kampwesterbork.nl/nl/jodenvervolging/tijdlijn-jodenvervolging/index.html#/index.
(¹) Manegestraat 4 in Amsterdam, see therefore the website of Joods Amsterdam, Manegestraat or Russianstreet: www.joodsamsterdam.nl/manegestraat-russenstraatje/ (copy link in your browser)