The Kon family, consisting of Mosiek Markus Kon, born in Plock, Poland in 1878, his wife Chana Dydakov, born in Biezun, Poland in 1882, and their children Hersz, Icek, Estera Brana, Cyon and Szymon, all born in Plock in Poland, arrived from Plock in Amsterdam in July 1931.
After their settling in Amsterdam, where in the beginning they have lived at different addresses, their children got married and left their parental home to build a family in their own home. Early December they moved into a house at Blasiusstraat 58 parterre and on 28 August 1935, Mosiek Markus and Chana Kon moved to nr. 46 parterre, where they continued to live until their arrest and deportation to the death camps.
Icek Kon married Marianne Smit in Amsterdam on 22 August 1940; she was nearly 24 years of age and a daughter ov Zorag Smit and Alida Vorsänger. After they were wed, they moved into a house in the Maasstraat 94 2nd floor, but on 15 August 1942, they moved again, now to Molenbeekstraat 1 2nd floor in Amsterdam-South. Icek was a cardboard manufacturer, had a completed 3-year HBS education and had a positive attitude. Up from 26 June 1942, he had a job as office clerk with the Jewish Council and Icek and his wife Marianne had a “Sperre”, issued by the Jewish Council, so they were exempted from deportation because of function for the time being. Icek and Marianne had no children.
On 20 June 1943, during the large-scale round-up which was secretly prepared by the Germans, Icek and Marianne were arrested and with more than 5500 other Jews carried off to Westerbork. There they stayed in barrack 65. Marianne Kon-Smit was deported to Sobibor on 6 July 1943 and on arrival there immediately killed in the gas chamber there on 9 July 1942. Her husband Icek Kon lost his life eventually on 15 July 1944 in Monowitz.
Sources include the City Archive of Amsaterdam, archive cares of Mosiek Markus Kon, Icek Kon and Marianne Smit; the file cabinet of the Jewish Council, registration cards of Icek Kon and Marianne Kon-Smit; the website jodentransporten vanuit Nederland.nl and the certificate of death nr. 463 from the A-register, folio 79verso, made up in Amsterdam for Icek Kon on 18 August 1950.