Eva Beek, born 15 May 1880 in Amsterdam, was a daughter of Philip Leon Beek and Rebecca Koren. She married at age 39 in Amsterdam on 19 November 1919 the 44-year old Jacque van Zwaanenburgh from St. Oedenrode, bookkeeper by profession and a son of Nathan van Zwaanenburgh and Louise Lazarina van Saxen. The couple had one daughter, born in Amsterdam on 19 March 1927, named Rebecca Louise.
When Eva Beek was still unmarried, she worked as suit dressmaker. On 28 November 1911 she left Amsterdam for Culemborg, where she was registered in the family of Mozes Polak, a trade clerk, (15-7-1869 Steenwijk) and his wife Henriette Wijzenbeek (18-4-1857 Culemborg). Four years later, on 12 April 1915 she left Culemborg for Enschede from where she returned to Amsterdam on 21 January 1919 and moved in with her sister Elisabeth Beek at Eerste van Swindenstraat 76 1st floor.
After her wedding in November 1919 to Jacque van Zwaanenburgh, her husband came living in with his sister-in-law too, however, he passed away there on 22 January 1927, even before the birth of his daughter Rebecca Louise, who was born there on 19 March 1927. After Eva Beek was widowed, she moved with her daughter Rebecca Louise on 20 July 1927 to Mesdagstraat 14 1st floor, located in the district “Nieuwe Pijp” in Amsterdam-South.
On 6 September 1942, Eva and her daughter Rebecca Louise were carried off to Westerbork and already the next day, on 7 September deported to Auschwitz. On arrival there on 10 September 1943, Eva Zwaanenburgh-Beek and Rebecca Louise Zwaanenburgh were immediately killed.
Sources include the City Archive of Amsterdam, archive card of Eva Beek, copied volumes (concluded family registration cards) 1892-1920/Eva Beek, Amsterdam residence card Eerste Van Swindenstraat 76; website wiewaswie/Eva Beek; Regional Archive Rivierenland/peoples registry Culemborg/Eva Beek/Mozes Polak and the file cabinet of the Jewish Council, registration cards of Eva Zwaanenburgh-Beek and Rebecca Louise Zwaanenburgh.