Leendert Samuel Wennek

The eldest child, Leendert Samuël Wennek, (also known as Wennik), married in 1928 the non-Jeswsh Maria Sophia Frederika Dickhout from Amsterdam, a daughter of Federik Hendrik Dickhout and Maria Sophia Frederika ten Bosch, from whom he was divorced by verdict  of the District Court of Amsterdam on 8 May 1941 and which has been registered in the Civil Registry (register of Marriages and Divorces) on…

In addition, a Jokos file (number 25203) on this family is at the Amsterdam Municipal Archive. Access is subject to authorization from the Stichting Joods Maatschappelijk Werk.

Early October 1943, a month after the arrival of the transport of 7 September 1943 from Westerbork with in total 987 deportees in Auschwitz, a group of 187 Dutch prisoners was formed who were deported to Warschau to clear the area of rubble of the devastated ghetto. Originally there was a group of 264 men, younger than 50 years, of whom 77 were killed in the gas chamber.

It had previously been dec…