Sara Tokkie, the eldest daughter of Abraham Tokkie and Judith Sanders, was born on 9 September 1901 in Rotterdam and married there on 23 October 1919 Samuel Godschalk, who was born in Amsterdam on 2 September 1893. He was a son of David Godschalk and Elizabeth de Jong and he worked as a shoemaker and as a diamond polisher.
Sara and Samuel had two children, namely Elizabeth in 1920 and Judith in 1922. Elizabeth survived the Holocaust, lived in Antwerp where she got married twice and obtained and kept so the Belgian nationality. She passed away in 1963 in Antwerp.
The Godschalk family lived in Rotterdam in the Pieter de Raadstraat 11a, in March 1922 in the Vierwindenstraat 24b and in October of that year they moved to Westewagenstraat 36a, where also Sara’s parents Abraham Tokkie and his wife Judith Sanders then lived. On 25 May 1923 the family left Rotterdam for Borgerhout, where they came to live in the Albrecht Rodenbachstraat 14.
Up from March 1927, Sara Godschalk-Tokkie lived with her daughters and husband in the Van Steenlandstraat 29 in Antwerp but before this, they also still have lived at Florastraat 88 in Borgerhout.
Sara passed away in Deurne on 12 March 1942. Her husband Samuel Godschalk was put to work as a forced labourer in 1942 in France and lost his life there on 11 September 1942 in Boulogne sur Mer. Her daughter Judith Godschalk was deported fom Mechelen to Auschwitz on 1 September 1942 with convoy 7, which arrived in Auschwitz on 3 September 1942. Judith Godschalk has been killed in the gas chambers of Auschwitz Birkenau on 4 September 1942.
Sources include the City Archive of Rotterdam, family registration cards of Abraham Tokkie and Samuel Godschalk; the Dossiers of Foreigners of Borgerhout (279575) and Antwerp of Samuel Godschalk, inventory 1120#489 and 890#149 and additions of descendants of the Godschalk family.