Rebekka Dwinger was a daughter of Abraham Dwinger and Penina Hirsch. She was born in Leeuwarden on 22 October 1865 and married on 30 March 1892 to Jacob Duque, born in Amsterdam on 15 May 1867. He was a son of Samuel Duque and Sara del Canho and before he was married lived at about seven different addresses in the old city of Amsterdam, such as at various house numbers on the Joden Kerkstraat and the Plantage Muidergracht.
After the marriage was concluded in Amsterdam, the Duque-Dwinger couple lived at Nieuwe Achtergracht 14 and had three children, namely: Sara in 1893, Samuel in 1894 and Penina in 1896. Samuel Duque was a diamond setter and commercial agent. However, he died at the relatively young age of 56 on 12 January 1924 in Amsterdam and was buried on 14 January at the Portuguese Jewish Cemetery Beth Haim in Ouderkerk aan de Amstel.
After the passing of her husband, the widowed Rebekka Duque-Dwinger left Amsterdam for Deventer on 26 February 1924, where her daughter Sara lived with her husband Machiel Salomons. She had married him in January 1921 and had meantime already a 2-year old little daughter Sprins, when her mother Rebekka came living in with them.
It was not until 30 April 1936 that Rebekka Dwinger from Deventer returned to Amsterdam where she found living space at Geleenstraat 51 1st floor in the River District of South Amsterdam. On 18 June 1941, Rebekka moved to the Plantage Middenlaan 40 upper house, on 30 October 1942 to the Jekerstraat 32 house and on 16 December to the Volkerakstraat 3 1st floor.
Not long afterwards, on 9 January 1943, she was taken from home and carried off to Westerbork, where she was housed in barrack 85. On 18 January 1943, she was deported to Auschwitz with 747 other deportees. Upon arrival on 21 January 1943, Rebekka Duque-Dwinger was immediately gassed in the gas chambers of Auschwitz-Birkenau. She was 77 years old at the time.
Sources include the City Archive of Amsterdam, family registration cards of Jacob Duque; archive card of Rebekka Dwinger; website hetstenenarchief.nl/grave Jacob Duque; the file cabinet of the Jewish Council, registration card of Rebekka Duque-Dwinger and the Wikipedia website Jodentransporten vanuit Nederland.nl.