Biography

About Jacob del Canho

Jacob del Canho died on 16 July 1943 in Westerbork transit camp and he was cremated on the same day. The urn with his ashes was placed on the Portugese-Jewish cemetry in Ouderkerk aan de Amstel on field 1924, row U, grave nr. 5.
Register van joden die in het kamp Westerbork zijn gecremeerd, 1943-1944; archief van de gemeente Westerbork, opgenomen in het archief van de gemeente Midden-Drenthe te Beilen, inv. n 3789

Jacob del Canho was deported to Westerbork in June 1943 from Vught on the so-called children's transport. He was 1 year old when he died.
J. de Moei, Joodse kinderen in het kamp Vught (Vught 1999) 23