Isaäc Wagenhuis was a son of David Wagenhuis and Sara Muis. He was born on August 23, 1883 in Amsterdam and he earned his living as a porter and a rag dealer. On 22 February 1912, he married Maria Augurk in Amsterdam, a daughter of Leendert Augurk and his first wife Rosa Bernhard. Maria was born on January 3, 1889 in Amsterdam.
Maria's mother, Rosa Bernhard, however, died in childbirth on 7 January 1889, four days after Maria's birth and her father remarried in 1890 to Katharina van Thijn, after which Maria had two more half-brothers, Jacob and David.
Maria herself, when she was 13 years old, was sent on 18 August 1902 to Alkmaar, where her aunt Grietje and uncle Isaac lived. Grietje Augurk, a sister of her father Leendert Augurk, was married to the vegetable dealer Isaac Tasch and they lived in Alkmaar. However, on 7 October 1906, her aunt Grietje died and even before Uncle Isaac remarried with Roosje Schaap on 28 November 1906, Maria was sent back to Amsterdam on 26 October 1906, where she came back to live with her father and stepmother after more than 4 years at Batavierstraat 77.
On 22 February 1912, Maria married Isaäc Wagenhuis and moved into a house at Vrolikstraat 139 3rd floor in Amsterdam. They then changed their address at least four more times: from the Vrolikstraat they moved to the Rechtboomstloot, then to the Hoogte Kadijk, the Kerkstraat, the Govert Flinckstraat and on 2 May 1927 to the Bethaniëndwarsstraat 15 1st stock, from where they moved on 1 February 1930 to the 2nd floor. On 28 August 1941 they moved to the Amsterdam Jodenbreestraat 2 1st stock.
Maria and Isaac had three daughters together: Rosa, Sara and Catharina. Rosa was born on 26 November 1912, Catharina on 25 March 1924 and the middle of the three, Sara, on 30 May 1914. She married Samson de Vries in 1936 and had a son Isaac with him, who was born in 1937. They lived at a different address in Amsterdam. Sara's sisters Rosa and Sara lived at home with their parents.
During the war and the persecution of the Jews, the Wagenhuis family was completely torn apart: Isaäc Wagenhuis – the head of the family – was already registered in Westerbork on 7 November 1942, where he had reported without summoned for the so-called “Arbeitseinsatz”. He was deported to Auschwitz on 10 November, where he was immediately murdered in the gas chambers of Auschwitz-Birkenau upon arrival on 13 November 1942.
Daughter Rosa was sent to the Vught concentration camp on 10 February 1943 and added as an escort to the so-called children's transport on 7 June 1943, which went via Westerbork to Sobibor on 7 June. On June 8, this transport departed from Westerbork for Sobibor and on 11 June 1943 all deportees, including Rosa Wagenhuis, were murdered in the gas chambers of Sobibor.
Catharina Wagenhuis, the youngest daughter, was arrested in Amsterdam during the raid on 26 May 1943 and deported via Muiderpoort station to Westerbork and from there on 1 June 1943 to Sobibor, where she was murdered in the gas chambers on 4 June 1943.
Sara Wagenhuis, the middle daughter, married Samson de Vries in 1936, and had a son Isaac with him in August 1937.Mother Sara and son Isaac were deported with the so-called children's transport from Vught via Westerbork to Sobibor on 8 June 1943 and were murdered in the gas chambers there on 11 June 1943. Father Samson was also murdered in Sobibor a month later, on 9 July 1943.
Maria Wagenhuis-Augurk was summoned on 18 March 1943 to report to Westerbork, where she had to wait in barrack 63 for her deportation. On 23 March, Maria was deported to Sobibor in a transport with 1250 deportees and on arrival there on 26 March 1943, Maria Augurk, wife of Isaäc Wagenhuis, mother of Rosa, Sara and Catharina, was immediately murdered in the gas chambers of Sobibor.
Sources include the City Archive of Amsteram, family registration cards of Leendert Augurk and Isaäc Wagenhuis, archive cards of Isaäc Wagenhuis, Maria Augurk and of Rosa, Sara and Catharina Wagenhuis; residence card Amsterdam Betaniëndwarsstraat 15; the file cabinet of the Jewish Council, registration cards of Isaäc Wagenhuis and Maria Wagenhuis-Augurk; ITS Arolson/ camp card Vughtt/Rosa Wagenhuis and the Wikipedia website jodentransporten vanuit Nederland.nl .