Simon Duitz

Simon Duitz was the fifth of the nine children of religious teacher Salomon Duitz and Elisabeth Duizend. His father was born in The Hague and was head of a school there. After he married in 1901, two sisters and a brother of Simon were born in The Hague, namely:  Alida, Louise and Henri. In August 1905 his parents and the three eldest children came from The Hague to Amsterdam where they moved into…

Two children residing at other addresses, Louise and Louis, died during the war. Two children, who resided at other addresses, survived the war. One child died before the war.
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In addition, a Jokos file (number 10967) on this family is at the Amsterdam Municipal Archive. Access is subject to authorization from the Stichting Joods Maatschappelijk Werk.

Sunday 20 June 1943: in the southern and eastern part of Amsterdam a big raid has taken place on the last remaining Jews in the city. Germans as well as the Amsterdam police blocked all streets, went into houses to bring the Jews to the gathering places.

At this raid, a large part of the remaining Jews of Amsterdam-East and South were made “ready to march” (marschfertig). The Germans boasted about…

Jewish tradespeople such as bakers, hairdressers, butchers, fishmongers, grocers, etc. received a special exemption (Sperre), so that the Jewish population could continue to use the tradespeople. As the number of Jewish residents of Amsterdam shrank due to the deportations, these exemptions were cancelled. On July 27, 1942, Meijer de Vries, the General Adviser of the Jewish Council, sent a circula…