David Oudkerk, born on 10 January 1889 in Den Helder, lived there for quite some time with his parents at Keizersstraat 67. David earned his living as a merchant and shop manager, and stayed in various places. On 22 December 1915, he left Den Helder for Meppel and worked as a shop assistant with A. Keizer at Hoofdstraat 22, and two years later, on 25 September 1917, he left Meppel for Amsterdam.
In Amsterdam, David first lived in with the widow Rozette Levin at Oosterparkstraat 45. On 3 May 1924 he moved to the Wouwermanstraat 6 house and lived in there with Elsje van Praag, a niece by marriage and widow of Jacob Polak, but left from there 24 January 1925 to Govert Flinckstraat 402, where he lived in with the widow of Simon Mok.
On 24 March 1926, David Oudkerk left Amsterdam again for Den Helder, lived there at Kerkgracht 19, where he married Isabella Lissauer, a daughter of Jesaja Lissauer and Recha Büttenwieser, originating from the Würzburg area, on 28 May 1931. There in Den Helder their daughter Jogeva Oudkerk was born on 30 June 1932.
Isabella Lissauer, born in Amsterdam on 13 March 1888, was the third of nine children from the second marriage of Jesaja Lissauer to Recha Büttenwieser. From her father's first marriage to Dina Joseph Prijs - who died on 22 October 1882 - she had four half-sisters, two of whom died at a young age. The other two half-sisters were murdered during the Shoah.
Partly due to the demolition of residential areas for the construction of the Antlantik Wall, the Oudkerk family (and many others) were forced to move to another and safer place in Den Helder. Then David Oudkerk and his family ended up in Keizerstraat 76 on 24 February 1941, but due to German regulations that Jews had to relocate to Amsterdam, David Oudkerk and his family had to move again on 25 June 1942 and then ended up at Oosterpark 42 2nd floor.
On 6 November 1942, David Oudkerk was picked up from his house, transferred to the Hollandsche Schouwburg and taken by train to Westerbork, where he was registered on 7 November. On 10 November David was put on transport to Auschwitz where he was murdered in the gas chambers of Auschwitz-Birkenau upon arrival on 13 November 1942.
His wife Isabella and daughter Jogeva were still living at home at Oosterpark 42. Isabella Oudkerk-Lissauer turned out to have been appointed as a General Service Employee at the Jewish Council, but he was not officially “gesperrt” (exempt from deportation until further notice). She did however have an identification from the Council with number D-1899. Nevertheless, her daughter Jogeva Oudkerk, also not “gesperrt”, as well her mother Isabella, were picked up from home on 13 April 1943 and carried off to Westerbork, where they both ended up in barrack 60.
On both their Jewish Council cards is clearly written in red letters “CALL”, an abbreviation of Calmeyer. They may have applied to avoid deportation as “not fully Jewish”. It was possible to submit a petition due to "doubts about Jewish descent" to Hans Calmeyer's office. Of the 5667 requests submitted to Calmeyer, he made a positive decision of more than 3000 cases (3709 positive of 5667 applications). (source: Wikipedia/Hans Georg Calmeyer)
If there had been an application regarding their Jewish descent, that application was not honored but rejected, with the result that Isabella Oudkerk-Lissauer and her 10-year-old daughter Jogeva Oudkerk were deported to Sobibor on 4 May 1943 and there upon arrival were murdered directly in the gas chambers on 7 May 1943.
Sources include the Regional Archive of Alkmaar/Population Register Den Helder/the Emanuel Oudkerk family; Archive of Drenthe/Population Registier Meppel/David Oudkerk;Oudkerk; The Amsterdam City Archive, archive cards of David Oudkerk, Isabella Lissauer and Jogeva Oudkerk; family registration card Amsterdam of David Oudkerk; Residence cards of Amsterdam: Wouwermanstraat 6 huis, Govert Flinckstraat 402 huis and Oosterparkstraat 45 1st floor; the file cabinet of the Jewish Council, registration cards of David Oudkerk, Isabella Oudkerk-Lissauer and Jogeva Oudkerk; Wikipedia website Georg Hans Callmeyer; the archive of the Red Cross, transport list Amsterdam-Westerbork of 6 November 1942/nr 124 David Oudkerkand the Wikipedia website Jodentransporten vanuit Nederland.nl.