Rachel Mok was a daughter of Jesaija Mok and Sara Workum. She married Daniël Wallig in Amsterdam on 6 June 1918, a son of Daniël Mozes Wallig and Betsie Peekel. The couple had four children, namely Rudolph Daniël in 1920, Jacqueline Alexandrine in 1921, Jo Theo in 1924 and Henri Eduard in 1928. All children lost their lives during the Shoah, just like Rachel Mok herself.
Since 1925 Rachel, her husband Daniël and already three of her children lived in Amsteram at Gijsbert van Amstelstraat 31 upstairs, and per 10 May 1932 followed a removal to Paramariboplein 28 2nd floor. However her husband Daniël Wallig passed away there on 24 August 1940 and was interred in the Jewish Cemetery at Muiderberg three days later. Her eldest son Rudolph Daniël left Amsterdam for Heemstede 3 November 1941 where he passed away there already after one month on 4 December 1941.
Her son Jo Theo was already arrested during the large-scale raids of early October 1942 in Amsterdam and taken to Westerbork, where he arrived between 3 and 5 October. On 2 November 1942 he was put on transport to Auschwitz, has been forced to leave the train during a stop at Kozel still before Auschwitz and ended up eventually in the forced labor camp of Blechhammer, were he lost his life on 11 May 1943.
Rachel was summoned to report in Westerbork on 16 October 1942 but it is unclear whether she has responded to this and whether this call also applied to her children. Rachel’s daughter Jacqueline Alexandrine was “exempted from deportation” (“gesperrt”) because her function at the Jewish Council. Since 22 July 1942 she worked as shorthand typist for the Council at the education department at Jekerstraat in Amsterdam. An annotation on her registration card from the Jewish Council indicated that she was married, however it is not known to whom and when she was married.
Rachel Wallig-Mok, however, was instructed to move from Paramariboplein and received a moving permit that was issued for the period 18-25 January 1943. As of 28 January 1943, she and her two remaining children moved to Louis Bothastraat 23 3rd floor in the African District in Amsterdam-East, what has also became their last known address.
During the so-called “Gross Aktion (Big Raid) of Sunday 20 June 1943 in Amsterdam-East, Rachel and her children Jacqueline Alexandrine and Henri Eduard were taken out of their home and deported to Westerbork, where they ended up in barrack 62. On 29 June, they were put on transport to Sobibor and on arrival there, 2 July 1943, they were immediately killed.
Sources: City Archive of Amsterdam, archive cards of Rachel Mok and Daniël Wallig; website wiewaswie.nl/marriage Daniël Wallig; website dutchjewry.org/mokum/burial permits/grave of Daniël Wallig; City Archive of Amsterdam, residence card of Louis Bothastraat 23; the file cabinet of the Jewish Council, registration cards of Rachel Wallig-Mok, Jacqueline Alexandrine Wallig, Henri Eduard Wallig and the death certificate of Rudolph Daniël Wallig of 5 December 1941.