Text of the official police report of 17 July, 1942, drawn up at 3:20 PM on the District Police station Jonas Daniël Meijerplein
Rachel Koopman, born 18 April 1865 in Amsterdam, widow of J. Winnik, living at Nieuwe Prinsengracht 90 I here, reports that on today, 17 July 1942 at about 4.30 am, by ringing the doorbell, a German soldier, of whom no further description can be given, came to her home and demanded money from her, after which she gave him a bag containing a few hundred guilders in bank notes. The soldier also demanded the identity cards and took the identity card of her son, named Salomom Winnik, born 25 August 1892 in Amsterdam, a diamond worker by profession. He further threatened the complainant by reaching for his revolver. Copy in quadruplicate to the Head Office.
Source: The City archives of Amsterdam, archive 5225/6070, police reports '40-'45 , report number 198.