Arthur Joseph Durlacher

Arthur Joseph Durlacher was an opera singer. In the late thirties he emigrated with his wife Erna Sofie Salomonica – born from a Romanian-Jewish business family - and their child from Germany to the Netherlands. The family was deported to Westerbork. There Arthur Joseph acted as a singer during the cabaret performances and he coordinated the practical work for the performances as a stage hand. In…

The Durlacher’s were a very artistique family who spoke German in a special way. The family had fled from Germany and had moved to a beautiful villa in the fashionable Jachtlaandistrict in Apeldoorn. In spite of their prosperity they had financial problems. Arthur Durlacher tried to make both ends meet by selling liquid soap to private persons. He distributed the soap over the buckets which he th…