Anna and Rozette van Praag were daughters of Jochem van Praag and Duifje Dreesde and unmarried. Anna worked as office clerk and Rozette had no profession. Anna and Rozette had two other sisters and two other brothers, namely Clara and Leonora and Isidor and Leon, who all have survived the Holocaust.
Clara stayed during the war in Palestine and returned in Amsterdam 1 December 1945. She lived then at Kalverstraat 206 1st floor. Already in 1911 she married Mordechai Pimentel, who passed away in Amsterdam in 1953. Per 19 July 1954 Clara moved to Dr. Ruppinstreet 15 in Tel Aviv in Israël.
Isidor married Rebecca Veerman in 1916 and had two children. Their son Joachim died at the age of 20 in 1938. With their daughter Dora, Isidor and Rebecca belonged to the so-called Barneveld group who was deported 9 September 1944 to Theresienstadt. They survived, were liberated 5 February 1945 and ended up in Caux in Switzerland, returned to Amsterdam for a short period of time and left 14 October 1947 for Tel Aviv in what then still was Palestine.
Leonora was married in 1927 to Lion Bakker from Zwolle. With their two sons they were “exempted – list L 10/28 dated 27 July 1942”, and survived the war. They lived among others in Blaricum and Amsterdam and passed away after 1970.
Leon married Madeleine de Doncker in 1935 in Antwerp. During the war they were in England, among others in Camberley, returned to Den Haag in 1945 and left in 1946 for Brussels.
Anna and Rozette’s mother, Duifje Dreesde had passed away already 11 April 1920. Their father, Jochem van Praag and his two unmarried daughters moved in 1929 from Swammerdamstraat 4-2nd floor to Deurloostraat 43-2nd floor in Amsterdam. In 1931 he moved to Rest Home Parkzicht at Plantage Parklaan 14 ground floor, where he passed away 14 July 1935. Anna and Rozette remained as inhabitants of Deurloostraat 43-2nd floor.
Both the sisters were carried off 2 September 1943 to Westerbork where they had to stay in the penal barrack 67, till they were deported to Auschwitz 7 September. On arrival there 10 September 1943, Anna and Rozette van Praag were immediately killed.
Sources among others: City Archive of Amsterdam, family registration card of Jochem van Praag, archive cards of Anna, Rozette, Clara, Isidor, Leonora and Leon van Praag, Madeleine de Doncker and Lion Bakker; website Wikipedia.nl/Caux Swizerland; the file cabinet of the Jewish Council, registration cards of Anna and Rozette van Praag, Isidor van Praag, Leonora van Praag and Lion Bakker and the website joodsamsterdam.nl/plantage parklaan.