Abraham van Broek was born on 26 August 1872 in Rotterdam as son of Levie van Broek and Leentje Schenk. He married on 4 October 1899 in Rotterdam to Anna Allemans; she was born there on 2 July 1869 as daughter of Levie Allemans and Klara Kadiks. Abraham and Anna had three children together in Rotterdam, namely Levie on 6 January 1901, Helena on 12 August 1906 and Henri on 15 December 1908.
Levie van Broek, sales representative by profession, was officially unsubscribed from the Peoples Registry of Rotterdam to London; nothing is further known of him. Helena van Broek married Simon Kraun, a son of Meijer Kraun and Sara Mest. They survived the Holocaust and today they live in Israël.
Their youngest son Henri lived in the Milletstraat 21 in Amsterdam and during the first days of May 1940, he served as a soldier in the Dutch Army, but the war was soon over. On 4 October 1942, Henri van Broek was carried off to Westerbork and on 16 October deported to Auschwitz. On arrival there he was selected for forced labour but in the end he lost his life in Auschwitz on 30 November 1942.
Up from October 1941, Abraham van Broek and his wife Anna Allemans lived at the Ceintuurbaan 52 in Hillegersberg. Previously they lived at several different addresses in Rotterdam, such as the Hoogstraat, the Zomerhofstraat, the Delftschestraat, per April 1928 at the Goudsesingel, in 1931 at the Bergweg (two house nrs), where they most likely have lived till their move in 1941 to Ceintuurbaan 52 in Hillegersberg, which became also their last known address. On 13 May 1943 they were picked up and transported to Westerbork, where Abraham ended up in the hospital barrack 82 and Anna in barrack 55.
Five days later, on 18 May Abraham and Anna were deported to Sobibor, where they were killed immediately on arrival on 21 May 1943 in the gas chambers there.
Sources among others: the City Archive of Rotterdam, family registration card of Abraham van Broek; website wiewaswie.nl/wedding Van Broek-Allemans; the file cabinet of the Jewish Council, registration cards of Abraham van Broek and Anna van Broek-Allemans, Helena Kraun-van Broek and Simon Kraun, Henri van Broek and the certificate of death for Henri van Broek, made out Amsterdam, A-register 92-folio 4- cert.nr. 13 dated 4 January 1952 and an addition of a visitor of the website.