Izaäk Oudkerk was the 2nd of the 14 children of Emanuel Hijman Oudkerk and Jegeva Sloog. He was born on 12 November 1878 in Den Helder and worked as a warehouse clerk. On 29 July 1909, Izaäk married in Zaandam Aaltje Nijstat, who was born in Zwolle. She was born there on 15 June 1873, a daughter of Joel Nijstat and Rika Davidson.
Before Izaäk married Aaltje Nijstat, he already lived in Amsterdam at Oudezijds Achterburgwal 163, living in with Fruitman; On 2 January 1906 he moved to the Nieuwe Keizersgracht, where he found living space at no. 75, and on 30 November 1907 again to the Oudezijds Achterburgwal, now to no. 203, where he found rooms with J. Polak.
After Izaäk Oudkerk married Aaltje Nijstat, they moved into a house at Amsterdam's Ceintuurbaan 99, 2nd floor, on 29 August 1909. There their daughter Frederika Jegeva Oudkerk was born on 17 November 1913. In August 1922, the Oudkerk family moved to Den Texstraat 10, where on 10 September 1927 the (German) maid Margarethe Haas was hired as a housekeeper. Aaltje Nijstat died there on 10 June 1929 and was buried two days later at the Jewish Cemetery in Muiderberg. Except for Frederika Jegeva, no other children were born.
On 27 April 1934, Izaäk Oudkerk moved with his daughter to Zuider Amstellaan 87, 2nd floor (the current Rooseveltlaan) and on 10 July 1936 to the 1st floor of Roerstraat 106, and Margaretha Haas moved with him all those times. After caring for father and daughter Oudkerk as domestic help for more than 10 years, 58-year-old Izaäk Oudkerk married her on 26 August 1937. The then 31-year-old Margarethe was born on 14 December 1905 in Kirchlinde, a district in the German city of Dortmund, and was a daughter of Hermann Haas and Johanna Seligmann.
On 24 January 1938, Izaäk Oudkerk's daughter Frederika Jegeva left the Roerstraat and went to live on her own in an upstairs house at Breugelstraat 4. She had now come into contact with Michiel van Blijdenstein, who was born in Zaltbommel on 5 February 1896 and who had come to Amsterdam from Cologne in the summer of 1935. They married in Amsterdam on 11 October 1939, but both were murdered during the Shoah. (read more?).
Izaäk Oudkerk and Margarethe Haas lived in April 1938 at Dintelstraat 54, 1st floor, and from November 1939 at Biesboschstraat 38 1st.. However, in 1943 they were also called up for departure to “the East”. On the night of 8 to 9 January 1943, they were deported from the “Joodsche Schouwburg” to Westerbork, where on 9 January they ended up in barrack 85, which was actually inhabited by privileged Jewish persons who were on the Barneveld list.
However, on Izaäk Oudkerk's registration card of the Jewish Council, "Call" is written in red pencil, but it is also crossed out. The Oudkerk-Haas couple had apparently succeeded in being placed on the Callmeyer list. (Dutch language only). However, 4 weeks later, on 10 February 1943, Izaäk Oudkerk was admitted to barrack 6, which was known in Westerbork as a hospital - men's department. It is not known what the cause of his admission/illness was, nor how long he was there.
Ultimately, Izaäk Oudkerk and his wife Margarethe Haas were deported to Auschwitz on 19 October 1943. This transport with 1007 deportees had left Vught a day earlier. Upon arrival of the train in Auschwitz on 21/22 October 1943, a selection immediately took place, in which approximately 350 men between the ages of 16 and 50 were selected for employment. They went into "quarantine" for 4 weeks, after which they were put to work in two groups: ±120 men to the coal mines of Jawischowitz and (±230 men to Warsaw for rubble-clearing work from the destroyed ghetto.
The remaining men, the sick, the weak and the elderly over the age of 50, were immediately taken away to be gassed. And nothing at all is known about the fate of the women on this transport. None of them have returned, while nothing is certain about any selection in Auschwitz.
In connection with this, it must be assumed that all women on the transport of 19 October 1943, as well as the children and men over 50 years of age, were killed by gassing on or about the day after their arrival at Auschwitz, i.e. on 22 October 1943. That was also the fate of Izaäk Oudkerk and his wife Margarethe Oudkerk-Haas.
Sources include the City Archive of Amsterdam, family registration cards of Izaäk Oudkerk and Margarethe Haas; archive cards of Izaäk Oudkerk, Frederika Jegeva Oudkerk and Margarethe Haas; website wiewaswie.nl/marriage Oudkerk x Nijstat; birth certificate 12603 of 17 Nov 1913 for Frederika Jegeva Oudkerk from register 21-folio 51; the file cabinet of the Jewish Council, registration cards of Izaäk Oudkerk and Margarethe Oudkerk-Haas; the archive of the Red Cross, publication “Auschwitz IV” deportation transports to Auschwitz in 1943, edited in October 1953 par. III at page 55, 56, 57/Transport of 19 October 1943 and the Wikipedia website Jodentransporten vanuit Nederland.nl/transport 19 October 1943.