Emanuel Henriques de la Fuente was the second child of Jacob Henriques de la Fuente and Benvenida Engers. He was born on 11 June 1892 in Amsterdam and married there Jette Pool on 4 September 1919, a daughter of Daniel Tobias Pool and Clara Roodenburg. Jette was born too in Amsterdam on 9 November 1892. The couple had a son, Jacob, born on 8 June 1920.
Jette Pool’s mother, Clara Roodenburg, who was already widowed since 14 August 1921, lived at Valkenburgerstraat 1 groundfloor, corner Rapenburgwal and Boltjensgrachtje, where she had a bread shop. Since her daughter Jette Pool was married to Emanuel Henriques de la Fuente, they came living in there too. On 6 December 1930 Clara Roodenburg moved to Iepenweg 22 3rd floor in Amsterdam-East and the bread shop was then continued by her daughter Jette. Clara Roodenburg passed away on 27 December 1939 and she was interred, just as her husband, in the Jewish Cemetery in Diemen.
Emanuel Henriques de la Fuente was a commercial traveller in office equipment and necessities. Till March 18941 he lived with his wife Jette and son Jacob at Valkenburgerstraat but on 25 March 1941 they moved to the 1st floor of house nr. 7 in the Reitdiepstraat in the River district of Amsterdam-South. At the time of the obligatory registration of all Jews in the Netherlands since January 1941, Jette Pool was registered as branch manager bread supply and Emanuel still as a commercial traveller.
Meantime, their son Jacob had received a call for the so-called “Arbeitseinsatz”, the provision of additional work under police surveillance in Germany, and during the night of 19 to 20 July he was transported with the “night train” from Amsterdam Central Station to Westerbork. On 24 July he was put on transport to Auschwitz, together with another 1000 deportees and upon arrival there a few days later, put to work as a forced labourer. It is unknown where he ended up and in which “command” he had to “work” but the conditions in Auschwitz appeared to be inhumane and harsh and on 16 August 1942 (according to the death books of Auschwitz the 15th) Jacob Henriques de la Fuente was murdered there.
It appeared that Emanuel has been sent to one of the Jewish forced labour camps near Hoogeveen (province of Drenthe) on 29 July 1942 but unknown is which camp it was. His wife Jette became an “employee” with the Jewish Council and she worked in the department of bread supply. Also her spouse became an “employee bread supply” with the Jewish Council and at some point he returned from the vicinity of Hoogeveen to Amsterdam.
During the months of the last raids in Amsterdam, also Emanuel and his wife Jette were arrested at home and carried off to Westerbork on 6 May 1943. For the time being they were accommodated in barrack 55 but op 18 May, with 2500 other deportees, they were put on transport to Sobibor. Upon arrival there on 21 May 1943 they were immediately murdered in the gas chambers there and of this transport nobody further survived.
Sources include the City Archive of Amsterdam, archive cards of Emanuel Henriques de la Fuente, Jette Pool, Jacob Henriques de la Fuente and Clara Roodenburg; website Joods Amsterdam/Rapenburgwal; website openarchieven.nl/wedding Daniel Tobias Pool x Clara Roodenburg; Amsterdam residence card Valkenburgerstraat 1; the file cabinet of the Jewish Council, registration cards of Emanuel Henriques de la Fuente, Jette Henriques de la Fuente-Pool and Jacob Henriques de la Fuente; website Museum and Memorial Auschwitz-Birkenau/Auschwitz Prisoners/Jacob Henriques de la Fuente and the certificate of death for Jacob Henriques de la Fuente made out in Amsterdam on 1 September 1950, nr. 352 from the A-register 48-folio 60v and the wikipedia website jodentransporten vanuit Nederland.nl.